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FROM: Supervisor Tom Torlakson Costa
DATE: June 11, 1985 County
SUBJECT: SMOKING BAN ORDINANCES
SPECIFIC REQUEST(S) OR RECOMMENDATION(S) & BACKGROUND AND JUSTIFICATION
BACKGROUND INFORMATION: I would like to share the article
reprinted below which appeared in the CSAC Legislative Bulletin of
June 3, 1985, regarding the adoption of smoking ban ordinances by
Santa Clara County and Los Angeles County.
RECOK-4ENDED ACTION: -Refer to the County Administrator' s office
for review and report to the Board of Supervisors.
.9;. Two Counties Adopt Smoking Ban ordinances
Santa Clara County attorneys have been asked to draw up an
) ordinance which in effect would place a ban on smoking for county
employees and for businesses in unicorporated areas. By a vote of
5-0 last week, the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors adopted
an ordinance similar to a model law provided by the American Cancer
Society. In every dispute over smoking, preference would be given to
non-smokers. In addition to limiting or eliminating smoking in the
work areas, the ordinance would require employers to set aside two-
thirds of cafeterias and lunch rooms for non-smokers.
The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors last. week approved
an ordinance that prohibits smoking in most areas of county .
buildings, but unlike a version passed by the city does not regulate
private businesses. The new law bans smoking throughout 500 'county
buildings, except for *a few areas that are specifically exempted.
It applies not .only to approximately 70, 000 workersemployedby the
state's largest county, but also to those doing business in county
facilities.
Supervisor Kenneth Hahn said if the county's anti-smoking
ordinance works smoothly, he will try to expand it to private
businesses in unincorporated areas.
CONTINUED ON ATTACHMENT:-YES SIGNATURE:
RECOMMENDATION OF COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR RECOMMENDATION OF BOARD COMMITTEE
APPROVE OTHER
SIGNATURE(S)
ACTION OF BOARD ON June 11, 1985 APPROVED AS RECOMMENDED X OTHER
VOTE OF SUPERVISORS
X - UNANIMOUS (ABSENT I HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS IS A TRUE
AYES: NOES: AND CORRECT COPY OF AN ACTION TAKEN
ABSENT: - ABSTAIN: AND ENTERED ON THE MINUTES OF THE BOARD
OF SUPERVISORS ON THE DATE SHOWN.
CC: County Administrator ATTESTED xiyt //. /f is
Phil Batchelor, Clerk of the Board of
Supervisors and County Administtawt,
M382/7-83 BY , , � a/ DEPUTY