Ottawa municipal properties are now smoke-free
Ottawa municipal properties are now smoke-free. Users of parks and beaches and City property, can no longer smoke. The municipality had given three months grace, to educate residents and businesses of the enlargement of its rules.
It is no longer possible to smoke outside of the 300 facilities and municipal property, including parking lots, parks and beaches. Smoke is also prohibited on the terraces of bars and restaurants.
The ban includes tobacco products, but also water pipes, also known as hookah or shisha.
Patrollers are on municipal property to ensure that the regulation is respected. Offenders are liable to a fine of $305.
The terraces are now smoke-free in Ottawa.
Ottawa Public Health wants to protect nonsmokers from secondhand smoke.
Byward Market and merchants have adjusted and removed their ashtrays on the terraces.
Posters explaining the rules are also installed at the entrance of the terraces.
For now, smokers have a break in the parks of the National Capital Commission (NCC) and operated facilities in Ontario that have not followed suit.
However, the NCC plans to follow suit and in turn modify its regulation by the fall.
In the City of Gatineau, the application of a regulation without smoke on the terraces and beaches is not on the agenda for now.
It is no longer possible to smoke outside of the 300 facilities and municipal property, including parking lots, parks and beaches. Smoke is also prohibited on the terraces of bars and restaurants.
The ban includes tobacco products, but also water pipes, also known as hookah or shisha.
Patrollers are on municipal property to ensure that the regulation is respected. Offenders are liable to a fine of $305.
The terraces are now smoke-free in Ottawa.
Ottawa Public Health wants to protect nonsmokers from secondhand smoke.
Byward Market and merchants have adjusted and removed their ashtrays on the terraces.
Posters explaining the rules are also installed at the entrance of the terraces.
For now, smokers have a break in the parks of the National Capital Commission (NCC) and operated facilities in Ontario that have not followed suit.
However, the NCC plans to follow suit and in turn modify its regulation by the fall.
In the City of Gatineau, the application of a regulation without smoke on the terraces and beaches is not on the agenda for now.