By ANDY GARDNER

MASSENA -- The village board voted 4-0 to ban tobacco use within 25 feet of municipal property.

The board took action after receiving complaints about people smoking in front of the Massena Community Center entrance.

No members of the public commented during a public hearing.

“I think it’s a good idea. I’ve been over there a few times and walking into the building … you’ve got to walk through that smoke to go inside, walk back through it to go outside. It’s good for everybody,” Trustee Francis Carvel said.

“It’s long overdue,” Trustee Matt Lebire said.

The new law prohibits “the use or disposal of tobacco products … within 25 feet of any of our properties,” Currier said when describing it last month. That includes smokeless tobacco and electronic cigarettes, despite the fact that e-cigarettes vaporize tobacco-free fluid instead of burning actual tobacco leaves.

The properties affected by the ban include:

• Massena Arena and the adjoining fields

• Massena Community Center, 61 Beach St.

• Department of Public Works, 85 Robinson Road

• Massena Volunteer Fire Dept., 34 Andrews St.

• Town Beach

• Wastewater treatment plant, 302 East Orvis St.

• Water treatment plant, 357 Pontoon Bridge Road

• Footbridge, Liberty Avenue

• Elm Circle park

• Veterans’ Memorial Park, Andrews Street

• North Main Street park (across from Stewart’s)

• Springs Park, West Hatfield Street

• Bushnell Field, Robinson Road

• Brighton Street park

• East Orvis Street park

• Creative Playground, Danforth Place

• Alcoa Field and park, Woodlawn Avenue