The largest city in western Massachusetts to moving to restrict vaping in public places.
The Springfield City Council is expected to vote Monday on a proposed ordinance to regulate the public use of e-cigarettes.
City Councilor Mike Fenton, who sponsored the ordinance, said it would ban the use of the electronic nicotine delivery systems anywhere tobacco smoking is prohibited.
" As vaping technology and vaping culture has become more mainstream, we, and I, have come to believe that it is a nuisance and as a public nuisance I belive it should be restricted in the same way that tobacco usage is," said Fenton.
Under the ordinance, violators could be fined up to $100.
