CHAPTER 4. Indoor Air Quality

Chapter 4 added by Stats. 1995, Ch. 415, Sec. 6.

§§ 118875–118950 · 20 sections

1. ARTICLE 1. California Indoor Clean Air Act of 1976 §§ 118875–118915 · 9 sections

   • § 118875 This article and Article 2 (commencing with Section 118920) shall be known and may be cited as the California Indoor Clean Air Act of 1976.
   • § 118880 The Legislature finds and declares that tobacco smoke is a hazard to the health of the general public.
   • § 118885 Within indoor rooms, indoor chambers, or indoor places of public assembly in publicly owned buildings in which public business is conducted requiring or…
   • § 118890 Every health facility, as defined in Section 1250, and clinic, as defined in Section 1200, shall comply with the following: (a) Shall make every reasonable…
   • § 118895 Within every publicly owned building open to the general public for the primary purpose of exhibiting any motion picture, stage drama, music recital, or any…
   • § 118900 Within every restaurant in a publicly owned building serving food or alcoholic beverages in rooms whose occupied capacity is 50 or more persons there shall be…
   • § 118905 Any person may apply for a writ of mandate to compel compliance by any public entity that has not complied with the requirements of this article and Article 3…
   • § 118910 (a) The Legislature declares its intent not to preempt the field of regulation of the smoking of tobacco products. A local governing body may ban completely…
   • § 118915 (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), no person shall smoke any tobacco product in any retail food production and marketing establishment, as defined in…
2. ARTICLE 1.5. Smokeless Tobacco in Professional Baseball § 118916 · 1 section

   • § 118916 (a) (1) The Legislature finds and declares that the use of smokeless tobacco products by professional baseball players is a matter of statewide interest and…
3. ARTICLE 2. Smoking in Private and Public Transportation §§ 118920–118945 · 6 sections

   • § 118920 (a) The Legislature hereby finds and declares that the United States Surgeon General’s 1986 Report on the Health Consequences of Involuntary Smoking conclude…
   • § 118925 (a) (1) It is unlawful for any person to smoke a tobacco product in any vehicle of a passenger stage corporation, the National Railroad Passenger Corporation…
   • § 118930 A notice prohibiting smoking, displayed as a symbol and in English, shall be posted in each vehicle or aircraft subject to this article.
   • § 118935 (a) Every person and public agency providing transportation services for compensation, including, but not limited to, the National Railroad Passenger…
   • § 118940 This article does not preempt any local ordinance on the same subject where a local ordinance is more restrictive to the benefit of the nonsmoker.
   • § 118945 Any violation of this article is an infraction punishable by a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars ($100) for a first violation, by a fine not exceeding two…
4. ARTICLE 2.5. Smoking in Motor Vehicles §§ 118947–118949 · 3 sections

   • § 118947 This act shall be known, and may be cited, as the Marco Firebaugh Memorial Children’s Health and Safety Act of 2007.
   • § 118948 (a) It is unlawful for a person to smoke a tobacco product in a motor vehicle, whether in motion or at rest, in which there is a minor. (b) For purposes of…
   • § 118949 A law enforcement officer shall not stop a vehicle for the sole purpose of determining whether the driver is in violation of this article.
5. ARTICLE 3. Tobacco Distribution § 118950 · 1 section

   • § 118950 (a) The Legislature hereby finds and declares the following: (1) Smoking is the single most important source of preventable disease and premature death in…