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(a) Rooms or areas in which smoking is permitted and which are so designated shall be separate to the extent reasonably practicable from those rooms or areas entered by the public in the normal course of use of the particular business or institution; (b) In designated smoking areas, ventilation systems and existing physical barriers shall be used when reasonably practicable to minimize the toxic effect of smoking adjacent to non-smoking areas; (c) Such designated smoking areas shall not be so large in number or area in any one building that the fundamental purposes of this ordinance are defeated. Section 24-435. Posting of signs. Any person who owns, manaqes or otherwise controls any building or area in which smoking is regulated by this Article shall post in an appropriate place in a clear, conspicuous and sufficient manner "smoking permitted" slqns or "no smoking permitted" signs (or the international "no smoking" symbol consisting of a pictorial representation of a burning cigarette enclosed in a red circle with a red bar across it). Printing on such signs shall be at least one (1) inch in height and the international symbol shall have a circle of at least four (4) inches in diameter. Section 24-436. Violations and penalties. (a) ~t shall be unlawful for any person who owns, manages, operates or otherwise controls the use of any premises subject to the prohibitions or restrictions of this Article to fail to comply with its provisions. Any such person violating any such provision or failing to comply with the requirements of this chapter shall be guilty of a Class 4 misdemeanor. Each day a violation of this Article shall continue constitutes a separate violation; (b) It shall be unlawful for any person to smoke in any area prohibited or restricted by the provisions of this Article; provided, however, that no such person shall be deemed to have violated the provisions of this Article unless such person shall have been ~equested to extinguish a lighted or smoldering cigar, cigarette or pipe of any kind and having been so requested failed to do so. Any such person violating any provision or failing to comply with any of the requirements of this Article shall be fined up to twenty-five ($25.00) dollars.