The following definitions shall apply:
City building.
All of the enclosed area that is used by the city and its employees and the general public, including but not limited to all or any part of the building used for any of the operations of the city, such as the city hall, police station, municipal court, library, fire stations, health department, city maintenance facilities, water treatment plant, and wastewater treatment plant.
Smoke, smokes or smoking.
Includes:
(1) 
Carrying or holding a lighted pipe, cigar, or cigarette of any kind, or any other lighted smoking equipment or device;
(2) 
The combustion of any cigar, cigarette, tobacco, or similar article, or any other combustible substance, in any manner, or in any form; or
(3) 
Emitting or exhaling the smoke of a pipe, cigar, or cigarette of any kind.
(2000 Code, sec. 2-261)
(a) 
A person commits an offense if in a city building the person smokes and fails or refuses to extinguish smoking materials or move outside the building upon request by any person to do so.
(b) 
Any person convicted of violating this provision shall be guilty of a class C misdemeanor, punishable by a fine as provided in section 1.01.009 of this code, as set by a judge or jury.
(2000 Code, sec. 2-262)
Signs shall be visibly placed at each public entrance to city buildings to notify persons entering the premises that smoking is prohibited. This provision does not include exits used exclusively as emergency exits.
(2000 Code, sec. 2-263)
(a) 
Nothing herein shall preclude the designation of the following premises as nonsmoking areas, but the restrictions contained herein shall not apply to:
(1) 
The Plainview Chamber of Commerce building, the Plainview Country Club buildings; the Rotary Center, or the Broadway Street Shelter; or
(2) 
An individual participating in an authorized theatrical performance.
(b) 
In the course of a police interview with a witness, victim or suspect, it may be advantageous to allow that person to smoke for the purpose of relaxing. In such an event, the police officer conducting the interview may allow the individual to smoke in his/her office or work area during the interview only. This should not be construed as a method to circumvent the purpose of this division, but to allow the police department the freedom to conduct criminal investigations in the most efficient and practical means possible.
(2000 Code, sec. 2-264)