CHAPTER 127
S. B. No. 116
(Longmire, Luick)
REGULATION OF USE OF CIGARETTES, CIGARS AND TOBACCO
AN ACT
Regulating the use of cigars, cigarettes, pipes, and tobacco so as not to endanger life or property, and providing a penalty.
Be It Enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the State of North Dakota:
§ 1. Use of Cigarettes, Cigars, Pipes, and Tobacco; Penalty.) It shall be unlawful for any person, who by smoking or attempting to light cigarettes, cigars, pipes or tobacco, or otherwise, to set fire to any fittings, furnishings, or part of any hotel, motel, rooming house, lodging house, or other place of public abode, so as to endanger life or property in any way, or to any extent. Any person violating any of the provisions of this Act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be punished by a fine of not more than one hundred dollars or by imprisonment in the county jail for not more than thirty days or by both such fine and imprisonment.
$ 2. Printed Notice To Be Posted.) The state fire marshal shall print and distribute copies of this Act to all hotels, motels, rooming houses, lodging houses, and other places of public abode in this state, and such copies shall be conspicuously displayed in each room of every hotel, motel, rooming house, lodging house, or other place of public abode located in this state.
Approved March 3, 1959.