Sonoma County Municipal Code § 32-7 Smoking optional areas

Smoking shall be prohibited in all vehicles owned, leased or operated by the county. Smoking shall be prohibited in all enclosed areas owned, leased or operated by the county. Smoking shall be prohibited in all unenclosed areas owned by the county. Smoking may be allowed in designated smoking areas as authorized by the director of health services or his/her designee.

Beginning fourteen (14) months after the effective date of this chapter, smoking is prohibited in any county regional parks' campgrounds. Smoking may be allowed in designated smoking areas as authorized by the director of health services or his/her designee.

(Ord. No. 5953, § I, 10-4-2011.)

Smoking shall be prohibited in the following places within the unincorporated area of the county:

(1) Enclosed areas in places of employment.

(2) The following unenclosed areas:

(a) Dining Areas. An employer with an unenclosed dining area may establish a designated smoking area elsewhere on the premises if the designated smoking area meets the criteria set forth in section 32-3. This subsection shall take effect as of June 1, 2012.

(b) Recreational areas, except in designated smoking areas.

(c) Public events, except in designated smoking areas.

(d) Service areas.

(e) All areas within a reasonable distance from any place where smoking is prohibited.

Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, any owner, operator, manager, employer or other person who controls any establishment or facility may prohibit smoking within the entire premises.

(Ord. No. 5953, § I, 10-4-2011.)

(a) Notwithstanding any other provisions of this chapter to the contrary, the following areas shall not be subject to the smoking restrictions of this article:

(1) Single-family private residences, except when used as a child care or health care facility;

(2) Up to twenty-five (25) percent of hotel and motel guest rooms, if the hotel or motel permanently designates particular guest rooms as nonsmoking rooms so that seventy-five (75) percent or more of its guest rooms are nonsmoking. Ashtrays shall be removed from nonsmoking rooms. Permanent "no smoking" signs shall be posted in nonsmoking rooms;

(3) Streets and sidewalks being used in a traditional capacity as pedestrian or vehicular thoroughfares, unless otherwise prohibited by this chapter or other law.

(b) Notwithstanding any other provision of this section, any owner, operator, manager, employer or person who controls any establishment described in this section may declare that entire establishment as a nonsmoking establishment.

(Ord. No. 5953, § I, 10-4-2011.)

(a) "No smoking" 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) shall be clearly, sufficiently and conspicuously posted in every building, including points of ingress, by the owner, operator, manager, employer or person having control of such building where smoking is prohibited by this chapter.

(b) A person who owns, operates, or otherwise controls the use of any place where smoking is prohibited by this chapter shall not knowingly or intentionally permit the presence of ash trays, ash cans, or other receptacles designed for or primarily used for disposal of smoking waste within the area.

(Ord. No. 6078, § I(b), 6-24-2014)

Editor's note— Ord. No. 6078, § I(b), adopted June 24, 2014, amended § 32-8 in its entirety to read as herein set out. Former § 32-8 pertained to posting requirements and derived from Ord. No. 5953, § I, adopted Oct. 4, 2011.