HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinance - 24-2014 - Amending City Code Section 5.35, Relating to Tobacco - 12/11/2014 CITY OF EDEN PRAIRIE
HENNEPIN COUNTY, MINNESOTA
ORDINANCE NO. 24-2014
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF EDEN PRAIRIE, MINNESOTA AMENDING CITY
CODE SECTION 5.35 AND ADOPTING BY REFERENCE CITY CODE CHAPTER 1 AND
SECTION 5.99 WHICH AMONG OTHER THINGS CONTAIN PENALTY PROVISIONS
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF EDEN PRAIRIE, MINNESOTA ORDAINS:
Section 1. City Code Chapter 5, Section 5.35, Subd. 2 D is hereby amended by adding the word
"cigarettes," before the word "cigars" in line 4 and deleting the following phrase "; but does not
include cigarettes as defined in this section" from line 7.
Section 2. City Code Chapter 5, Section 5.35, Subd. 5 is hereby amended by deleting the title
"Prohibited Sales" and replacing it with the title "Prohibited Acts".
Section 3. City Code Chapter 5, Section 5.35, Subd. 5 is hereby amended by inserting D as follows:
D. Smoking for the purposes of sampling tobacco-related products is prohibited. It shall be
unlawful for any person to light, inhale, or exhale tobacco-related products within the indoor
area of any establishment licensed tinder this Section, or for any person to allow the same.
Section 4. City Code Chapter 1 entitled "General Provisions and Definitions Applicable to the Entire
City Code Including Penalty for Violation" and Section 5.99 entitled "Violation a Misdemeanor" are
hereby adopted in their entirety, by reference, as though repeated verbatim herein.
Section 5. This ordinance shall become effective from and after its passage and publication.
FIRST READ at a regular meeting of the City Council of the City of Eden Prairie on the 18`" day of
November, 2014, and finally read and adopted and ordered published at a regular meeting of the City
Council of said City on the 2"d day of December, 2014.
Kathie. Porta, City Clerk ancy a-Lu ns, ao r
Published in the Eden Prate-ie News on the I I"' day of December, 2014.