Lutsk City Council will regulate the use of tobacco products in the city

I think the decision is fair both toward smokers and toward those who often, not of their own volition, become passive smokers. Read the other details of the decision below...

LUTSK CITY COUNCIL

DECISION

dated 8.09.06 No. 5/136 city of Lutsk

On regulating the use of tobacco products on the territory of the city of Lutsk

In the interests of the territorial community of the city of Lutsk, guided by Art. 27 of the Constitution of Ukraine, clause 1.46 of Art. 26 of the Law of Ukraine "On Local Self-Government", Art. 9, Art. 13 of the Law of Ukraine "On Measures to Prevent and Reduce the Use of Tobacco Products and Their Harmful Impact on Public Health" and with the aim of ensuring the protection of people from the harmful effects of tobacco smoke in workplaces and in public places, the city council

DECIDED:

1. To prohibit smoking in workplaces and public places on the territory of the city of Lutsk.

2. To the heads of enterprises, institutions, organizations of private, communal and state forms of ownership, owners or tenants of the relevant structures and premises:

2.1. To allocate by 08.10.2006 special separately located and isolated smoking areas that do not degrade the dignity of smokers, equipped with exhaust ventilation or other means for removing tobacco smoke, and also to place visual information about the location of such areas and about the harm caused to human health by smoking tobacco products, or to designate the structures as those where smoking is prohibited entirely.

2.2. To introduce changes to the internal labor regulations regarding restrictions on the use of tobacco products and disciplinary liability for non-compliance, within a month after the publication of this decision in the mass media;

2.3. To draw attention to personal responsibility regarding compliance with the requirements of the Law of Ukraine "On Measures to Prevent and Reduce the Use of Tobacco Products and Their Harmful Impact on Public Health" and this decision.

2.4. To inform the city council by 01.11.2006 about the implementation of this decision.

3. To designate as smoke-free places: educational institutions, health care, culture, physical culture and sports institutions of various forms of ownership, state administration and local self-government bodies, in which to prohibit the use of tobacco products in all premises and in the adjacent territories (a 50-meter zone around them).

4. To the legal department of the city council to develop in accordance with the requirements of the legislation of Ukraine and approve at a meeting of the executive committee the decision "On determining structural subdivisions whose officials have the right to draw up protocols on administrative violations according to the city council decision 'On regulating the use of tobacco products on the territory of the city of Lutsk'", the regulation on the procedure for applying Art. 175 "Smoking tobacco products in prohibited places" and Art. 156 "Violation of the rules of trade in alcoholic beverages and tobacco products" of the Code of Ukraine on Administrative Violations, with the designation of persons who have the right to draw up protocols on these administrative violations and their consideration at the administrative commission of the executive committee of the city council.

5. To the Department of Urban Planning of the city council (Matviiv Ya.V.):

5.1. To provide, when approving the reconstruction of objects and when preparing draft decisions of the city council on approving the location of objects, a clause on equipping separately located smoking areas, or designating buildings where smoking is prohibited entirely.

5.2. To provide, when preparing draft decisions of the city council on approving the locations of public catering facilities, for the mandatory division of the halls of cafes, bars, night clubs into two parts, where the part of the hall for smoking visitors cannot exceed 50% of the area allocated for all visitors, located so that tobacco smoke does not spread to the area of the part of the hall where smoking is not permitted.

6. To the departments and administrations of the city council, when preparing "Regulations on the activity" of administrations and departments, to provide a clause on the possibility of drawing up protocols on administrative violations in accordance with the city council decision "On regulating the use of tobacco products on the territory of the city of Lutsk".

7. To the Health Care Administration of the city council (F. Koshel) to open by 01.10.2006 in the city's polyclinics offices for the treatment of persons for tobacco dependence and to prepare appropriate specialists.

8. To publish this decision in the mass media.

9. To entrust control over the implementation of this decision to the standing commission of the city council on matters of observance of human rights, legality, combating crime, deputy activity, ethics and regulations, social protection, health care, motherhood and childhood.

Secretary of the council Sviatoslav Zelinskyi