§ 13-3. Smoking.

(a)

No person shall smoke any pipe, cigar or cigarette, or tobacco ignited by fire, upon the wharves set apart for the loading and unloading of vessels of any description whose business it is to transport cotton, oil or other inflammable merchandise. The same prohibition shall extend to depots of railroads, to warehouses, yards and mills where cotton and other inflammable merchandise is stored temporarily or permanently.

(b)

It shall be unlawful for any person to smoke or use matches in any manner in the hold of vessels of any description, or on the decks of same during the time said vessels may be taken on or unloading cargoes of the inflammable articles set out in subsection (a), until the loading of same, shall be completed for the time being, and the hatches closed and the decks cleared up.

(c)

There shall be prepared and posted in conspicuous places, upon the wharves and other places used for the purposes described in subsection (a), signboards or notices reading: "No smoking or use of fire allowed here under penalty of the law." It shall be unlawful for any person to remove the signboards or notices.

(d)

Smoking means smoking or to smoke as defined in section 20-121.

(Code 1961, §§ 7-18—7-20; Ord. No. 25602 , § 2, 6-27-18)