§ 11.5-3. Prohibition of smoking in enclosed public places.  


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  • (a)

    Smoking shall be prohibited in all enclosed public places within the city, including but not limited to, the following places:

    (1)

    Aquariums, galleries, libraries, and museums.

    (2)

    Areas available to and customarily used by the general public in businesses and non-profit entities patronized by the public, including but not limited to, professional offices, banks, hotels, and laundromats.

    (3)

    Areas where prohibited by city fire code.

    (4)

    Bars including restaurant bars, lounge bars, and taverns that do not satisfy the adult venue requirements of this chapter.

    (5)

    Bingo facilities.

    (6)

    Bowling centers.

    (7)

    City facilities and vehicles.

    (8)

    Convention facilities.

    (9)

    Educational facilities, both public and private.

    (10)

    Elevators.

    (11)

    Facilities primarily used for exhibiting a motion picture, stage, drama, lecture, musical recital, or other similar performance.

    (12)

    Government facilities and vehicles.

    (13)

    Health care facilities.

    (14)

    Licensed childcare and adult day care facilities.

    (15)

    Lobbies, hallways, and other common areas in apartment buildings, condominiums, hotel, motel, and bed and breakfasts, trailer parks, retirement facilities, nursing homes, and other multiple-unit residential facilities.

    (16)

    Polling places.

    (17)

    Reserved.

    (18)

    Public transportation facilities, including buses, trolleys, taxicabs, ferries, cruise ship terminals and ticket, boarding, covered or enclosed waiting areas of public transit depots.

    (19)

    Restaurants.

    (20)

    Restrooms, lobbies, reception areas, hallways, and other common-use areas.

    (21)

    Retail establishments.

    (22)

    Rooms, chambers, places of meeting or public assembly, including school buildings, under the control of an agency, board, commission, committee or council of the city or a political subdivision of the state, to the extent the place is subject to the jurisdiction of the city.

    (23)

    Service lines.

    (24)

    Shopping malls.

    (25)

    Sports arenas, including enclosed places in outdoor arenas.

    (b)

    Smoking shall be prohibited in an enclosed area of a workplace. This includes common work areas, auditoriums, classrooms, conference and meeting rooms, private offices, elevators, hallways, medical facilities, cafeterias, employee lounges, stairs, restrooms, vehicles, and all other enclosed facilities.

    (c)

    Smoking shall be prohibited within five (5) feet from an entrance, operable window, or ventilation system of an enclosed area in which smoking is prohibited.

    (d)

    The owner or operator of a public place shall take necessary steps to prevent or stop another person from smoking in an enclosed area in a public place.

(Ord. No. 09-044, § 3, 7-23-09; Ord. No. 09-073, § 2, 12-10-09; Ord. No. 10-077, § 2, 9-23-10)