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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>74884</law_id><section_number>15.2-2824</section_number><catch_line>Prohibitions on smoking generally; penalty for violation</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>15.2-2829</reference><reference>15.2-2830</reference></referred_to_by><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="28.2">Virginia Indoor Clean Air Act</unit><unit label="article" level="4" order_by="1" identifier="2">Statewide Regulation of Smoking</unit></structure><text>
						<section id="A"><p><span class="prefix-number">A.</span> <span class="dictionary">Smoking</span> shall be prohibited in (i) elevators, regardless of capacity, except in any open <span class="dictionary">material</span> hoist elevator not intended for use by the general public; (ii) public school buses; (iii) the interior of any public elementary, intermediate, and secondary school; (iv) hospital emergency rooms; (v) local or district health departments; (vi) polling rooms; (vii) indoor service lines and cashier lines; (viii) public restrooms in any building owned or leased by the Commonwealth or any agency thereof; (ix) the interior of a child day center licensed pursuant to &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Licenses required; issuance, expiration, and renewal; maximum number of participants or children; posting of licenses" href="/22.1-289.011/">22.1-289.011</a> that is not also used for residential purposes; however, this prohibition shall not apply to any area of a building not utilized by a child day center, unless otherwise prohibited by this chapter; and (x) public restrooms of health care facilities. <a id="paragraph-269029" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/15.2-2824/#A"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="B"><p><span class="prefix-number">B.</span> No person shall <span class="dictionary">smoke</span> in any area or place specified in subsection A and any person who continues to <span class="dictionary">smoke</span> in such area or place after having been asked to refrain from <span class="dictionary">smoking</span> shall be subject to a civil <span class="dictionary">penalty</span> of not more than $25. <a id="paragraph-269030" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/15.2-2824/#B"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="C"><p><span class="prefix-number">C.</span> Civil penalties assessed under this section shall be paid into the Virginia Health Care Fund established under &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Virginia Health Care Fund established" href="/32.1-366/">32.1-366</a>. <a id="paragraph-269031" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/15.2-2824/#C"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>2009, cc. 153, 154; 2020, cc. 860, 861.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
