Stanislaus County Municipal Code Ch. 9.52 Prohibition of Smoking in Public Places

Smoking shall be prohibited in the following places:

A. Elevators;

B. Buses, taxicabs, and other means of public transit under the authority of the county, and ticket, boarding, and waiting areas of public transit depots;

C. Restrooms;

D. Service lines;

E. Retail stores;

F. All areas available to and customarily used by the general public in all businesses and nonprofit entities patronized by the public, including but not limited to professional offices and other offices;

G. Restaurants;

H. Public areas of aquariums, galleries, libraries and museums when open to the public;

I. Any facility which is primarily used for exhibiting any motion picture, stage, drama, lecture, musical recital or other similar performance, except when smoking is part of a stage production;

J. Sports arenas and convention halls;

K. Every room, chamber, place of meeting or public assembly, including school buildings under the control of any board, council, commission, committee, including joint committees, or agencies of the county of any political subdivision of the state during such time as a public meeting is in progress, to the extent such place is subject to the jurisdiction of the county;

L. Waiting rooms, hallways, wards and rooms of health facilities, including, but not limited to, hospitals, clinics, physical therapy facilities, doctors' offices, dentists' offices, and long-term care facilities;

M. Enclosed common areas in apartment buildings, condominiums, retirement facilities, and long-term care facilities;

N. Polling places;

O. Enclosed common areas in shopping malls;

P. Barbershops, beauty shops, cleaners, laundromats, and other places where members of the general public congregate for service or otherwise frequent.

(Ord. CS 516 §2, 1993)

Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, any owner, operator, manager or other person who controls any establishment or facility may declare that entire establishment or facility as a non-smoking establishment.

(Ord. CS 516 §2, 1993)