Bill Text: CA SB8 | 2019-2020 | Regular Session | Introduced
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Bill Title: State parks: state beaches: smoking ban.
Sponsorship: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-1)
Status: (Passed) 2019-10-11 - Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 761, Statutes of 2019. [SB8 Detail]
Download: California-2019-SB8-Introduced.html
Bill Title: State parks: state beaches: smoking ban.
Sponsorship: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-1)
Status: (Passed) 2019-10-11 - Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 761, Statutes of 2019. [SB8 Detail]
Download: California-2019-SB8-Introduced.html
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
2019–2020 REGULAR SESSION
| Senate Bill | No. 8 |
| Introduced by Senator Glazer (Principal coauthor: Assembly Member Levine) (Coauthors: Assembly Members Choi and Mark Stone) |
December 03, 2018 |
An act to add Section 5008.10 to the Public Resources Code, relating to parks.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
SB 8, as introduced, Glazer.
State parks: state coastal beaches: smoking ban.
Existing law makes it an infraction punishable by a fine of $250 for a person to smoke a cigarette, cigar, or other tobacco product within 25 feet of a playground or tot lot sandbox area.
This bill would mn style=" text-transform: lowercase">NO
Fiscal Committee:
YES
Local Program:
YES
Bill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
The Legislature finds and declares that making it an infraction punishable by a fine of up to $25 for a person to smoke on a state coastal beach or in a unit of the state park system or to dispose of used cigar or cigarette waste on a state coastal beach or in a unit of the state park system is a matter of statewide concern in recognition of the importance of public health and environmental quality for the people of this state.SEC. 2.
Section 5008.10 is added to the Public Resources Code, to read:5008.10.
(a) For purposes of this section, the following definitions apply:(1) “Cigar” has the same meaning as defined in Section 104550 of the Health and Safety Code and, for purposes of this section, may contain any other weed or plant as an alternative or supplement to tobacco or nicotine.
(2) “Cigarette” has the same meaning as defined in Section 104556 of the Health and Safety Code and, for purposes of this section, may contain any other weed or plant as an alternative or supplement to tobacco or nicotine.
(3) “Smoke” or “smoking” means inhaling, exhaling, burning, or carrying any lighted or heated cigar, cigarette, or
pipe, or any other lighted or heated tobacco or plant product intended for inhalation, whether natural or synthetic, in any manner or in any form. “Smoke” or “smoking” includes the use of an electronic smoking device that creates an aerosol or vapor, in any manner or in any form, or the use of any oral smoking device for the purpose of circumventing a prohibition on smoking. “Smoke” or “smoking” does not include the use of a cigar, cigarette, or pipe, or any other lighted or heated tobacco or plant product used as a prop in a motion picture, television program, or similar filmed audiovisual work, provided filming is properly permitted by the California Film Commission, the active film set is closed to the general public, and any waste is immediately removed from the park. “Smoke” or “smoking” does not include the use of a cigar, cigarette, or pipe, or any other lighted or heated tobacco or plant product used in connection with the good faith practice of a religious belief or ceremony.
(4) “State coastal beach” means an area that is owned by, operated by, or under the jurisdiction of the department and that adjoins the ocean, a bay, or an estuary.
(5) “Unit of the state park system” means an area specified in Section 5002.
(b) A person shall not smoke on a state coastal beach or in a unit of the state park system.
(c) A person shall not dispose of used cigar or cigarette waste on a state coastal beach or in a unit of the state park system unless the disposal of the cigar or cigarette waste is made in an appropriate waste receptacle.
(d) A person who violates this section is guilty of an infraction and shall be punished by a fine of up to twenty-five dollars ($25).
(e) The department shall develop and post signs at entrances or strategic locations, as determined by the director, of state coastal beaches and units of the state park system to provide notice of the smoking prohibition set forth in subdivision (b). Subdivision (b) shall be enforced on state coastal beaches and in units of the state park system only after signs have been posted.
