§ 9-38. Prohibition of smoking in enclosed public places.

Smoking shall be prohibited in all enclosed public places within the city, including, but not limited to, the following places:

(1)

Aquariums, galleries, libraries, and museums.

(2)

Areas available to the general public in businesses and nonprofit entities patronized by the public, including, but not limited to, banks, laundromats, professional offices, and retail service establishments.

(3)

Bars.

(4)

Child care and adult day care facilities.

(5)

Convention facilities.

(6)

Educational facilities, both public and private.

(7)

Elevators.

(8)

Gaming or bingo facilities.

(9)

Health care facilities.

(10)

Hotels and motels: Including all rooms rented to guests, restrooms, lobbies, reception areas, hallways, and other common-use areas; provided that a maximum of fifty (50) percent of the hotel rooms, at the discretion of the hotel owner or general manger, available for rent to guests in a hotel or motel may be designated as smoking rooms as provided by the Louisiana Smoke-Free Air Act, R.S. 40:1300.251 et seq.

(11)

Lobbies, hallways, and other common areas in apartment buildings, condominiums, trailer parks, and other multiple-unit residential facilities.

(12)

Nursing homes: common-use, public areas. To remain consistent with the Louisiana Smoke-Free Air Act, R.S. 40:1300.251 et seq., smoking is allowed in private and semiprivate rooms or apartments in assisted living residences, and other long-term care facilities that are occupied by one (1) or more persons, who are all smokers and who have requested in writing to be placed in a room where smoking is permitted; provided that smoke from such rooms or apartments does not infiltrate into areas where smoking is prohibited.

(13)

Polling places.

(14)

Public transportation vehicles, including buses and taxicabs, under the authority of the city, and ticket, boarding, and waiting areas of public transportation facilities, including bus, train, and airport facilities.

(15)

Restaurants.

(16)

Restrooms, lobbies, reception areas, hallways, and other common-use areas.

(17)

Retail stores.

(18)

Rooms, chambers, places of meeting or public assembly, including school buildings, under the control of an agency, board, commission, committee or council of the city or a political subdivision of the state, to the extent the place is subject to the jurisdiction of the City of Abbeville.

(19)

Service lines.

(20)

Shopping malls.

(21)

Sports arenas, including enclosed places in outdoor arenas.

(22)

Theaters and other facilities primarily used for exhibiting motion pictures, stage dramas, lectures, musical recitals, or other similar performances.

( Ord. No. 14-06 , 9-16-14; Ord. No. 15-02 , 1-6-15; Ord. No. 18-04, 6-5-18 )