§ 16-1. Smoking restrictions in hotels, public rooming accommodations and residences.  


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  • Any person who, as a guest or occupant of any hotel, roominghouse, tourist court, or other place renting rooms for the accommodation of the public, and residences, shall, by smoking, or attempting to light or to smoke cigars, cigarettes, pipes or tobacco in any manner in which lighters or matches are employed, or who, in the disposition of lighted matches, cigars, or cigarettes or live embers of any smoking material, in a careless, reckless, or negligent manner, whether willfully or negligently, sets fire to any mattress, bedding, furniture, curtains, drapes, or any household fittings, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.

(Code 1976, § 7:50; Ord. No. 622, § 2, 7-13-1964)