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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>75285</law_id><section_number>15.2-2828</section_number><catch_line>Ordinances regulating smoking generally</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>15.2-2831</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="3">Local Regulation of Smoking</unit></structure><text>
						<section id="A"><p><span class="prefix-number">A.</span> No <span class="dictionary">ordinances</span> enacted by a <span class="dictionary">locality</span> prior to January 1, 1990, shall be deemed invalid or unenforceable because of lack of consistency with the provisions of this chapter. <a id="paragraph-270337" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/15.2-2828/#A"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="B"><p><span class="prefix-number">B.</span> Except as provided in &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Mandatory provisions of ordinances" href="/15.2-2829/">15.2-2829</a>, no <span class="dictionary">ordinances</span> adopted after January 1, 1990, shall contain provisions or standards that exceed those established in this chapter. <a id="paragraph-270338" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/15.2-2828/#B"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="C"><p><span class="prefix-number">C.</span> However, any <span class="dictionary">ordinance</span> may provide that employers may regulate <span class="dictionary">smoking</span> in the <span class="dictionary">private work place</span> as they deem appropriate under the following circumstances: (i) if the designation of <span class="dictionary">smoking</span> and no-<span class="dictionary">smoking</span> areas is the subject of a written agreement between the employer and his employees, the provisions of the written agreement shall control such designation and (ii) a total ban on <span class="dictionary">smoking</span> in any work place shall only be enforced by the employer upon an affirmative vote of a majority of the affected employees voting, unless such ban is the subject of a <span class="dictionary">contract</span> of employment between the employer and the employees as a prior condition of employment. No <span class="dictionary">ordinance</span> adopted pursuant to this subsection shall affect no-<span class="dictionary">smoking</span> policies established by employers prior to the adoption of such <span class="dictionary">ordinance</span>. <a id="paragraph-270339" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/15.2-2828/#C"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>2009, cc. 153, 154.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
