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Rohnert Park adopts urgency ordinance expanding tobacco definition and extending loitering-of-minors hours
Summary
Council adopted Urgency Ordinance 988 to add modern vaping products to the municipal definition of tobacco and to extend the hours during which loitering by minors may be prohibited; the change responds to youth vaping and afternoon loitering near University Square and parks and passed on a 4-0 roll-call vote with one absence.
On July 22, the Rohnert Park City Council adopted Urgency Ordinance 988, which amends municipal-code chapters 9.72 and 9.76 to add contemporary vaping devices and associated products to the local definition of tobacco products and to expand the hours when loitering by minors may be prohibited.
Public-safety staff told the council that the current code dates to 1997 and does not explicitly reference vape pens, flavored vaping oil and similar products that have…
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