HomeMy WebLinkAbout2800 AN ORDINANCE relating to the prevention
of SOLVENT INHALATION within the City
of Bremerton, and declaring an emergency.
THE CITY OF BREMERTON DOES ORDAIN:
Section 1. No person, except a person who is,
at the time of such sale, actually employed by or engaged in
operating a bona fide commercial establishment at a fixed loca-
tion, shall sell to any other person any product containing a
solvent having the property of releasing toxic vapors or fumes,
and all sales of such product not made in or from such an establish-
ment are hereby prohibited.
Section 2. No person shall knowingly sell or offer
for sale, deliver or give away to any person, any substance contain-
ing any of the following volatile solvents, where the seller, offerer
or deliverer knows or has reason to believe that the substance will
be used for the-purpose of inducing symptoms of intoxication, elation,
dizziness, paralysis, irrational behavior, or in any manner change,
distort or disturb the audio, visual or mental processes: toluol,
hexane, trichloroethylene, acetone, toluene, ethyl acetate, methyl
ketone, trichloroethene, isopropanol, methyl isobutyl ketone, methyl
cellosolve acetate, cyclohexanone, or any other substance which will
induce symptoms of intoxication, elation, dizziness, paralysis, irrat-
ional behavior, or in any manner change, distort or disturb the audio,
visual or mental processes
Section 3.
(a) No person shall, for the purpose of causing a
condition of intoxication, inebriation, excitement, stupefaction, or
the dulling of his brain or nervous system, intentionally smell or
inhale the fumes from any substance containing a solvent having the
property of releasing toxic vapors or fumes: Provided, that nothing
in this section shall be interpreted as applying to the inhalation
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of any anesthesia fop medical oP dental purposes.
(b) No pePson shall, fop the puPpose of violat-
ing Section (a) use, oP possess fop the purpose of so using, any
p~oduct containing a solvent having the pmope~ty of ~eleasing ~oxic
vapoPs oP fumes.
Section ~.
(a) Any person violating any of the pPovisions
of this section shall be deemed a disomderly person and shall be
fined not less than $ ~.~--- o~ more than $~ for each
offense.
(b) Any person who violates any p~ovision of
this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanom.
Section 5. That an emergency exists and is hereby
declared to exist and this O~dinance is necessary fop the immediate
p~esePvation of the public peace, health, safety and general welfare
of the citizens of B~emePton~ and shall take and be in effect im-
mediately upon passage and publication.
PASSED unanimously by the City Council of the City of
BPemePton, signed by the Mayo~ and attested to by the City Clerk in
authentication of such passage this/~day of June, 1968.
ATTEST:
E."'H. McGOWA~ City ClePk
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