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A. Smoking is prohibited in all enclosed public places within the city, including, but not limited to, the following enclosed places:

1. Elevators;

2. Restrooms, lobbies, reception areas, hallways and any other common-use areas;

3. Buses, taxicabs, and other means of public transit operating within the city, and ticket, boarding, and waiting areas of public transit depots;

4. Service lines;

5. Retail stores;

6. All areas available to and customarily used by the general public in all businesses and nonprofit entities patronized by the public, including, but not limited to, offices, banks, laundromats, hotels, motels, sales areas and areas where personal services are provided;

7. Restaurants;

8. Public areas of galleries, libraries and museums;

9. Any facility which is primarily used for exhibiting any motion picture, stage, drama, lecture, musical recital or other similar performance except as provided in BMC 8.10.070(A)(7);

10. Sports arenas and convention halls, including bowling facilities and places where bingo games and games of skill and chance are conducted;

11. Every room, chamber, place of meeting or public assembly, including school buildings under the control of the state or any board, council, commission, committee, including joint committees, or agencies of the state, the city or any political subdivision of the state or special purpose public or quasi-public entity created or authorized by state statute during such time as a public meeting is in progress, to the extent such place is subject to the jurisdiction of the city;

12. Waiting rooms, hallways, wards and semiprivate rooms of health facilities, including, but not limited to, hospitals, clinics, physical therapy facilities, doctors’ offices and dentists’ offices;

13. Lobbies, hallways, recreation rooms, storage and parking areas, laundry facilities and other enclosed common areas in apartment buildings, condominiums, trailer parks, retirement facilities, nursing homes, and other multiple-unit residential facilities;

14. Polling places.

B. Notwithstanding any other provision of this section, any owner, operator, manager or other person who controls any enclosed area that is unregulated space may declare that enclosed area a nonsmoking area and when such area is posted in accordance with BMC 8.10.080 no person may smoke in such area. [Ord. 98-07 § 2.]