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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>62402</law_id><section_number>2.2-2902</section_number><catch_line>Use of tobacco products by state 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="2.2">Administration of Government</unit><unit label="subtitle" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="I">Organization of State Government</unit><unit label="part" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="E">State Officers and Employees</unit><unit label="chapter" level="4" order_by="1" identifier="29">Virginia Personnel Act</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>No employee of or applicant for employment with 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> is applicable.</p></section></text><history>1989, c. 511, &#xA7; 15.1-29.18; 1997, c. 587, &#xA7; 2.1-111.1; 2001, c. 844.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
