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Ordinances enacted through January 13, 2009

Copyrighted by SANTA CLARA COUNTY CODE & Municipal Code Corporation, 1998.

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Sec. B13-82. General prohibition.

(a) Smoking shall be prohibited within any enclosed structure owned or leased by Santa Clara County, wherever located, and in all enclosed public places within the unincorporated areas of Santa Clara County as follows:

(1) Elevators.

(2) Restrooms.

(3) Service lines.

(4) Laundromats.

(5) Retail stores and all areas in shopping malls inside and outside of retail stores, restaurants, bars, restrooms, and offices.

(6) Areas available to or open to and customarily used by the general public in all business and nonprofit entities, including but not limited to, offices (such as the offices of attorneys, doctors, accountants, other professionals, and service providers), banks, and churches.

(7) Restaurants.

(8) Bars.

(9) Motels, motels, motor inns, bed and breakfasts, boarding houses, and other establishments in which the operator has the status of an "innkeeper."

(10) Aquariums, amusement parks, galleries, libraries, arcades, or museums when open to the public.

(11) Facilities primarily used as theaters, auditoriums, or halls; or which are used for exhibiting motion pictures, stage dramas, musical performances, ballets, lectures, debates or other similar performances, except when smoking is part of any such performance.

(12) Waiting rooms, hallways, wards, and rooms and offices of health facilities, including but not limited to, hospitals, clinics, physical therapy facilities, doctors' offices, and dentists' offices.

(13) Sports arenas, convention halls, bingo halls, banquet rooms, and meeting rooms.

(14) Retail food marketing establishments, including grocery stores, convenience stores, warehouse stores, and supermarkets.

(15) Rooms, chambers, places of meeting or public assembly, including, but not limited to school buildings under the control of any board, council, commission, committee including joint committees, or agencies of the County during such time as a public meeting is in progress, to the extent such place is subject to the jurisdiction of the County.

(16) Lobbies, hallways, and other common areas in apartment buildings, condominiums, senior citizen residences, nursing homes, and other multiple-unit residential facilities.

(17) Polling places.

(18) Private clubs.

(b) Except as otherwise provided in Section B13-84, smoking shall be prohibited in all enclosed places of employment within the unincorporated areas of Santa Clara County.

(Ord. No. NS-625.4, § 2, 1-4-94)

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