§ 19-5. Use of tobacco products at polling places on municipal election days.

(a)

The smoking, chewing or use of tobacco and tobacco products are prohibited at municipal polling places on municipal election days; provided, however, that nothing in this section shall prevent the private owner of a facility where a polling place is located from designating an area outside the room where the election is held as an area where tobacco and tobacco products may be used, at the owner's sole discretion.

(b)

The prohibition against the use of tobacco and tobacco products at polling places shall commence thirty (30) minutes prior to the opening of the polls and shall continue through and until all election workers have completed their work on election day and vacated the premises. Persons involved with setting up and removing voting machines on the day before and the day after a municipal election shall not use tobacco and tobacco products while physically in the polling place.

(c)

The Tupelo Elections Commission shall be charged with informing all election workers and bailiffs of the prohibitions contained in this section. Bailiffs shall erect `"no smoking" signs prior to the opening of the polls, and any person not complying therewith shall be subject to a citation, returnable to municipal court. The fine for violation of this section shall be twenty-five dollars ($25.00).

(d)

All bailiffs and police officers of the City of Tupelo shall be responsible for the enforcement of this section.

(Ord. of 4-21-92, §§ 1—4)

Editor's note

Provisions enacted by §§ 1—4 of an ordinance adopted April 21, 1992, have been included herein at the discretion of the editor as § 19-5.