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-4- 469 <br /> 4 . Signs .w <br /> In public areas of County owned or leased buildings, <br /> there shall be conspicuously displayed appropriate <br /> signage prohibiting smoking except in designated areas. <br /> 5 . Construction <br /> This Ordinance shall not be interpreted or construed to <br /> permit smoking, where it is otherwise restricted or <br /> prohibited by other applicable laws, rules or <br /> regulations . The provisions of this Ordinance are <br /> severable. Any provision of this -Ordinance deemed by a <br /> court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid shall be <br /> severed and such severance shall not affect the validity <br /> of any other provision of this Ordinance. This Ordinance <br /> shall not be construed to require orange County to modif <br /> or construct any new or existing County-building to <br /> provide -therein a smoke-free environment for non-smoking <br /> employees- and members of the Rublic. <br /> 6 . Penalty <br /> Any person violating the provisions of this Ordinance <br /> shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, <br /> shall be punished by a fine not to exceed $500_. 00 or i <br /> imprisonment of not more than 30 days, in the discretion <br /> of the Court, in accordance with N.C. General Statutes <br /> 14-4 (a) . <br /> Read and approved upon first reading by a vote of 5 <br /> for and 0 against. <br /> This Ordinance shall become effective upon the 1 th day of <br /> September_, 1993. <br /> I, Beverly Blythe, Clerk to the Board of Commissioners <br /> for the County of Orange, North Carolina, DO HEREBY CERTIFY <br /> that the foregoing is a true copy of so much of the ' <br /> proceedings of said Board at a meeting held on <br /> August 17 1993 as relates in .any way to the <br /> adoption of the foregoing Ordinance Regulating Smoking in <br /> Buildings Owned or Leased by Orange County and Motor Vehicles <br /> Owned or Leased by Orange County and that said proceedings <br /> are recorded in Minute Book No. 27 of the minutes of said <br /> Board, beginning at page and ending at page <br />