5.35.025 Smoking and Tobacco Use Prohibited on City Campuses.
A. Definitions. The following definitions shall apply to this chapter:
1. City campuses means any City or Bend Urban Renewal Agency (BURA) owned/leased facility where official business is conducted. This includes the interior and exterior of City/BURA buildings including but not limited to City Hall, Public Works/Police, Fire Departments, Municipal Airport, Riverfront Plaza and Hawthorne Station site and the exterior of buildings from the edge of the building to the public sidewalk including parking lots.
2. City parking structure means any city-owned structure used for motor vehicle parking, but not including surface parking lots.
3. Tobacco product means any tobacco cigarette, cigar, pipe tobacco, smokeless tobacco, chewing tobacco, or any other form of tobacco which may be utilized for smoking, chewing, inhalation, or other means of ingestion.
4. Smoking means any inhaling, exhaling, burning, or carrying of any lighted pipe, cigar, cigarette, or similar product containing tobacco, cannabis, or any similar substance.
B. The City of Bend prohibits smoking and the use of tobacco products throughout all City campuses and City parking structures.
C. Exceptions. The prohibition on smoking and the use of tobacco products does not apply to the following areas:
1. Public sidewalks within the public right-of-way.
2. Areas specified as a designated smoking area.
3. Within a vehicle in a City parking structure.
D. “Tobacco Free Campus” signs will be posted at all City campus entrances and signs shall be posted in City parking facilities indicating that smoking and tobacco use are prohibited.
E. Tobacco receptacles will be placed at the “Tobacco Free Campus” sign locations at entrances to City campuses as a receptacle for tobacco products.
F. Any City police officer, City code enforcement officer, City Manager or designated representative shall have the authority to request that City employees or members of the public discontinue smoking or other use of tobacco products on City campuses. Any person who fails to discontinue the use of their tobacco products immediately upon request is required to immediately leave the City campus. Failure to comply with an order to discontinue smoking or other tobacco use or leave a City campus constitutes criminal trespass in the second degree (ORS 164.245).
G. Violation of this section is a Class C civil infraction. [Ord. NS-2184, 2012; Ord. NS-2142, 2010]