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Section 2. Article XIV is added to Chapter 18 of the Santa Ana Municipal Code <br />to read as follows: <br />Article XIV <br />Hookah Parlors <br />Sec. 18-650. Purpose and Findings. <br />The City Council finds that hookah parlors have been associated with <br />increases in noise, loitering, public drinking, possession of illegal <br />weapons, underage drinking, and arson; that hookah parlors <br />exacerbate the inherently dangerous behavior of tobacco use around <br />non-tobacco users; diminish the protection of children from exposure <br />to smoking and tobacco while they increase the potential for minors <br />to associate smoking and tobacco with a healthy lifestyle; and <br />weaken the protection of the public from smoking and tobacco- <br />related pollution; and that hookah parlors if allowed in the City would <br />have adverse secondary effects on surrounding properties, including <br />but not limited to lowering property values and introducing <br />incompatible land uses to existing neighborhoods; and that in order to <br />serve public health, safety, and welfare of the residents and <br />businesses within the City, the declared purpose of this article is to <br />prohibit hookah parlors as defined in this article. <br />Sec. 18-851. Hookah Parlor Defined. <br />(a) "Hookah parlor" shall mean any facility or location whose <br />business operation, whether as its primary use or as an ancillary <br />use, is denoted by the smoking of tobacco or other substances <br />through one or more pipes (commonly known as a hookah, <br />waterpipe, shisha or narghile) designed with a tube passing through <br />an urn of water that cools the smoke as it is drawn through it, <br />including but not limited to establishments known variously as <br />hookah bars, hookah lounges or hookah cafes. <br />(b) "Ancillary use" shall be defined as that term is defined in <br />section 41-13.5 of the Code. <br />(c) "Primary use" shall mean a use that is not an ancillary use. <br />Sec. 18-652. Hookah Parlors Prohibited. <br />It shall be unlawful for any person or entity to own, manage, conduct, <br />or operate any hookah parlor or to participate as an employee, <br />Ordinance No. NS-2763 <br />Page 5 of 7 <br />