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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>58265</law_id><section_number>15.2-1504</section_number><catch_line>Use of tobacco products by government employees</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="15.2">Counties, Cities and Towns</unit><unit label="subtitle" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="II">Powers of Local Government</unit><unit label="chapter" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="15">Local Government Personnel, Qualification for Office, Bonds, Dual Office Holding and Certain Local Government Officers</unit><unit label="article" level="4" order_by="1" identifier="1">General Provisions for Certain Officers and Employees</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>No employee of or applicant for employment with a <span class="dictionary">locality</span> or any political subdivision of the Commonwealth shall be required, as a condition of employment, to smoke or use tobacco products on the job, or to abstain from smoking or using tobacco products outside the course of his employment, provided that this section shall not apply to those classes of employees to which &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Presumption as to death or disability from respiratory diseases, hypertension or heart disease" href="/27-40.1/">27-40.1</a> or &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Disability resulting from activities in discharge of official duties" href="/51.1-813/">51.1-813</a> are applicable.</p></section></text><history>1989, c. 511, &#xA7; 15.1-29.18; 1997, c. 587.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
