There shall be no requirement of a culpable mental state for a violation of this division.
(Ordinance 2001-27, sec. 3, adopted 6/26/01; 1957 Code, sec. 8-119.5)
(a) 
The building official or designee shall provide each applicant for a certificate of occupancy with a copy of the ordinance from which this division derives.
(b) 
All persons, owners, operators, persons in charge or managers of any facility, business or agency within the purview of this division shall comply with the provisions of this division.
(c) 
The building official or designee, in his/her sole discretion, may enforce this division by any of the following actions:
(1) 
Serving written notice on the owner, operator, person in charge or manager of any facility, business or agency within the purview of this division, requiring the correction, within a specified reasonable time frame, of any violation of this division;
(2) 
Requesting the city attorney to maintain an action for injunction to enforce the provisions of this division, to cause the correction of any such violation and for assessment and recovery of a civil penalty for such violation, including attorney’s fees;
(3) 
Issuing a municipal court citation; or
(4) 
In cases where occupancy permits are required, denying an occupancy permit.
(d) 
The remedies contained herein are cumulative of, and in addition to, any other remedies that are available to the city at law or in equity.
(e) 
In undertaking the enforcement of this division, the city is assuming an undertaking only to promote the general health, safety and welfare of its citizens. The city is not assuming any duty or obligation, nor is it imposing any duty and/or obligation on its officers and/or employees, nor is it liable in money damages or otherwise to any person who claims that:
(1) 
The city and/or one of its officers and/or employees breached any such obligation; and
(2) 
The breach proximately caused injury.
(Ordinance 2001-27, sec. 3, adopted 6/26/01; 1957 Code, sec. 8-119.6)
(a) 
A person commits an offense in violation of this division by smoking, including the use of e-cigarettes, in any public area in any of the following places in the city, and an offense is punishable by a fine not to exceed five hundred dollars ($500.00):
(1) 
A public or private preschool or primary or secondary school;
(2) 
Elevators, museums, libraries, galleries, and public transportation conveyances and facilities;
(3) 
Any building which is used for or designated for the purpose of exhibiting any motion picture, stage drama, lecture, musical recital, athletic event or any other such event whenever open to the public;
(4) 
Any retail or service establishment serving the general public, including, but not limited to, any food products establishment, department store, bingo parlor, bowling center, bar, nightclub, tavern, lounge, sexually oriented business, billiard hall, laundromat, bank, drugstore, shopping mall, or hair styling salon;
(5) 
Within all areas available to and customarily used by the general public in all buildings of governmental subdivisions of the state located in the city, not the state or federal government, nonprofit entities patronized by the public, and private institutions of education;
(6) 
Within any public area of a health-care facility or hospital, including, but not limited to, clinics, physical therapy facilities, nursing and convalescent homes, residential treatment centers/homes and doctors’ and dentists’ facilities;
(7) 
Within any common area in subsections (1) through (6) above; or
(8) 
Within a hospital as defined in this section.
(b) 
It shall be unlawful for any person to mutilate or destroy any signs required by this division and an offense is punishable by a fine not to exceed five hundred dollars ($500.00).
(c) 
Notwithstanding any other provision of this division to the contrary, smoking including the use of e-cigarettes is not prohibited in the following areas:
(1) 
Private residences, except when used as a licensed child-care or health-care facility or other commercial use;
(2) 
Hotel and motel rooms rented to guests;
(3) 
Retail tobacco stores that have an enclosed, separately ventilated smoking room that exhausts directly to the outside environment;
(4) 
Any area exterior to the building in which the establishment or facility is located;
(5) 
Any enclosed rooms in an establishment which are being used entirely for private parties, events or other social functions or by a private club;
(6) 
Enclosed areas of an employer that are not available to the general public;
(7) 
Any designated smoking area that meets the requirements specified herein; or
(8) 
General and administrative offices and professional, educational, or governmental offices primarily used by employees, and not the public.
(d) 
Each of the following circumstances shall be a defense to prosecution under this section:
(1) 
That the public place in which the offense takes place does not have prominently displayed a reasonably sized sign that smoking is prohibited by law and that an offense is punishable by a fine not to exceed five hundred dollars ($500.00), or as authorized by state law;
(2) 
That, in a facility listed in subsection (a)(6) of this section, all patients within the room are smokers and such smoking is ordered on the health-care facility’s admission form by an attending physician, in keeping with the guidelines established by the facility. Separate ventilation exhaust may be required by the building official to accommodate such orders;
(3) 
That the smoking occurred in any public transportation conveyance or public place set out in subsection (a) of this section that is not equipped with facilities for extinguishment of smoking materials;
(4) 
That the person who is smoking does so exclusively within an area designated for smoking tobacco; or
(5) 
As a participant in an authorized theatrical performance.
(Ordinance 2001-27, sec. 3, adopted 6/26/01; 1957 Code, sec. 8-119; Ordinance 2011-19 adopted 6/14/11; Ordinance 2016-34, sec. 7, adopted 9/27/16)
The owner, operator or person in charge of a public area described in section 6-7-64(a), and not excluded by section 6-7-64(c), shall be guilty of an offense and subject to a fine not to exceed two thousand dollars ($2,000.00), and subject to the other remedies provided in this division, for failure to comply with the following requirements:
(1) 
Failure to post signs, when required by this division, which designate smoking or no smoking areas that are reasonably sized and prominently displayed and, in the case of signs which designate no smoking, state that smoking is prohibited by law and an offense which is punishable by a fine not to exceed five hundred dollars ($500.00), or as authorized by state law.
(2) 
When smoking is prohibited, failure to provide facilities for extinguishment of smoking materials within twenty (20) feet of and outside of the public entrances, or as otherwise required by state law.
(3) 
Failure to provide designated smoking areas as required in section 6-7-66 when both a smoking area and nonsmoking area are designated.
(Ordinance 2001-27, sec. 3, adopted 6/26/01; 1957 Code, sec. 8-119.1; Ordinance 2011-19 adopted 6/14/11)
In the event that both a smoking area and a nonsmoking area are designated, the owner, operator or person in charge of the public area shall provide for the smoking areas to meet the following requirements:
(1) 
(A) 
Such smoking areas are equipped with a functional air purification system or functional separate ventilation system. Such systems shall have a negative pressure on the area designated for smoking to prevent air from a smoking area to be drawn across or into the nonsmoking area. All ventilation systems shall provide a total air exchange every fifteen (15) minutes and shall exhaust that air to the exterior of the building.
(B) 
Exception: An alternate system not complying with the above can be substituted, provided:
(i) 
Designated smoking areas must be substantially separated from the nonsmoking areas by physical means, such as by partitions or by approved air barrier systems.
(ii) 
Designated smoking areas must be provided a separate HVAC system from those serving nonsmoking areas.
(iii) 
The system must remove visual smoke at a rate of four (4) times per hour and that air from designated smoking areas must not be drawn across nonsmoking areas.
(2) 
All systems shall be tested, and such tests shall be made available to the building official when requested, and the owner, operator or person in charge may be required to pass additional tests in the future as determined necessary by the building official if the adequacy of the system appears to fail to meet the objectives of this division or as a periodic maintenance check.
(3) 
A sign, reasonably sized, must be prominently displayed by the owner, operator or person in charge of the public area on the premises and state that smoking is permitted in the designated smoking area and, where smoking is not permitted, [the owner, operator or person in charge must] prominently display a reasonably sized sign or signs that give notice that smoking is prohibited by law and that an offense is punishable by a fine not to exceed five hundred dollars ($500.00), or as authorized by law.
(4) 
Designated smoking areas shall not include common areas.
(5) 
Failure to meet these standards will result in the denial of the opportunity to operate such smoking area. Smoking areas failing the prescribed test or not in compliance with the requirements contained herein shall be deemed to be nonsmoking until successfully tested.
(6) 
All children’s playgrounds associated with eating establishments shall be nonsmoking. All doors and gates leading to such play areas shall be posted with separate no smoking signs that comply with section 6-7-65(1) or state law.
(7) 
This section shall not be applicable to public transportation conveyances, but it shall be applicable to public transportation facilities.
(Ordinance 2001-27, sec. 3, adopted 6/26/01; 1957 Code, sec. 8-119.2)
It shall be a defense to section 6-7-65, unless required by state law, that the owner, operator, or person in charge of any establishment or facility described in this division has declared the establishment or facility as a smoking establishment by posting signs that are clearly visible at allpublic entrances stating: “Smoking Area Only” and has not attempted in any way to designate both a smoking area and a nonsmoking area. This section shall not be applicable to public transportation conveyances or facilities.
(Ordinance 2001-27, sec. 3, adopted 6/26/01; 1957 Code, sec. 8-119.3)
In the event that the public area is one which is designated as no smoking, the owner, operator or person in charge shall:
(1) 
Prominently display a reasonably sized notice that smoking is prohibited by state law in such conveyance or public place and that an offense is punishable by a fine not to exceed five hundred dollars ($500.00); and
(2) 
Provide facilities for extinguishment of smoking materials.
(Ordinance 2001-27, sec. 3, adopted 6/26/01; 1957 Code, sec. 8-119.4)