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 Southaven
 Code of Ordinances
 Title X. OFFENSES
 Chapter 3. SMOKING BAN ORDINANCE

  § 10-203. Smoking prohibited in indoor public places and in places of employment.  

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  • Except as otherwise provided, it shall be unlawful for any person to smoke in indoor public places, and in places of employment as defined herein, including but not limited to the following:

    (1)

    Aquariums, galleries, libraries and museums;

    (2)

    Areas available to and customarily used by the general public in businesses and non-profit entities patronized by the public, including but not limited to, professional offices, banks, laundromats, hotels and motels;

    (3)

    Bars;

    (4)

    Bingo facilities;

    (5)

    Childcare facilities;

    (6)

    City buildings;

    (7)

    Common areas in bed and breakfast establishments, hotels and motels and common areas of buildings;

    (8)

    Convention facilities;

    (9)

    Educational facilities;

    (10)

    Elevators and enclosed stairwells;

    (11)

    Facilities primarily used for exhibiting a motion picture, stage, drama, lecture, musical recital, or other similar performances;

    (12)

    Health care facilities;

    (13)

    Hotel and motel lobbies;

    (14)

    Indoor shopping malls;

    (15)

    Lobbies, hallways, and other common areas in apartment buildings, condominiums, trailer parks, retirement facilities, nursing homes, and other multiple-unit residential facilities;

    (16)

    Places of employment;

    (17)

    Polling places;

    (18)

    Private clubs when being used for a function to which the general public is invited;

    (19)

    Public forms of transportation, including but not limited to motor buses, taxicabs, or other public passenger vehicles;

    (20)

    Public bus and transfer point shelters;

    (21)

    Public places including parking garages and jails;

    (22)

    Retail stores;

    (23)

    Restaurants;

    (24)

    Restrooms, 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;

    (25)

    Self-service laundry facilities;

    (26)

    Service lines;

    (27)

    Service lobbies, waiting areas, and the common areas open to the public of financial institutions, businesses and professional offices, and multi-unit commercial facilities;

    (28)

    Sports arenas and venues, including municipal parks;

    (29)

    Waiting rooms, hallways, rooms in offices of any physician, dentist, psychologist, chiropractor, optometrist or optician, or other medical services provider.

( Ord. of 5-6-14 , § 1(Art. III))