The much-discussed Belmont smoking ban received its final approval last night after a quick public hearing and discussion, City Clerk Terri Cook said last night.

The Belmont City Council approved the ordinance 3-2, with councilmen Bill Dickenson and Warren Lieberman in opposition. The law, which prohibits smoking in almost all public establishments, will go into effect in 30 days. Property owners will have 14 months to enforce the law via lease agreements.

The city made international news last year when the council began talking about an all-out ban of smoking within its borders. After months of discussion, the council settled on what will become one of the nationā??s strictest smoking laws.

Smoking will be prohibited in all individual apartments, condominiums and townhouses and their patios or yards which share common floors or ceilings with at least one other such unit. City law already prohibits smoking in common areas of multi-use buildings such as apartments. The law makes no distinction between leased and owned units.

The ordinance will ban smoking in all workplaces, except in sole-proprietorship smoke shops. It will also ban smoking in all outdoor work places like outdoor cafes and restaurant patios.

Smoking will be also be prohibited 20 feet from any non-smoking areas.

Property owners would be required to insert no-smoking terms in their residential leases and those lease provisions would go into effect 14 months after adoption of the ordinance.
San Mateo Daily Journal

California...home of the left wing. Now if anyone here is to tell me that these people are the ones to legalize ANY type of smoke; well, there is a difference between dreams and reality. YOUR smoke could drift through some walls and get somebody high ya know.:wtf:

Have a good one!:jointsmile: