§ 39-17-1808. Continuing Program to Explain and Clarify
The department of health and the department of labor and workforce development shall engage in a continuing program to explain and clarify the purposes and requirements of this part to all persons affected by this part.
§ 39-17-1809. Local Operating Procedures
The commissioner of health and the commissioner of labor and workforce development shall annually request other governmental and educational agencies to establish local operating procedures in cooperation and compliance with this part.
§ 39-17-1810. Construction With Other Laws
This part shall not be construed to permit smoking where it is otherwise restricted by other applicable laws.
§ 39-17-1811. Rules and Regulations
The department of health, in consultation with the department of labor and workforce development, is authorized to promulgate rules and regulations to effectuate this part. The department of labor and workforce development, in consultation with the department of health, is authorized to promulgate rules and regulations to effectuate this part.
§ 39-17-1812. Liberal Construction
This part shall be liberally construed so as to further its purposes.
§ 39-17-1804. Exempted Areas
Notwithstanding any other provision of this part to the contrary, the following areas shall be exempt from § 39-17-1803: Age-restricted venues; Hotel and motel rooms that are rented to guests and are designated as smoking rooms; provided, that no more than twenty-five percent (25%) of rooms rented to guests in a hotel or motel may […]
§ 39-17-1805. Posting of Nonsmoking Areas
“No Smoking” signs or the international “No Smoking” symbol, consisting of a pictorial representation of a burning cigarette enclosed in a red circle with a red bar across it, shall be clearly and conspicuously posted at every entrance to every public place and place of employment where smoking is prohibited by this part by the […]
§ 39-17-1806. Enforcement — Notice — Complaints — Inspections — Informing Violators
This part shall be enforced by the department of health in those enclosed public places otherwise regulated by the department. This part shall be enforced by the department of labor and workforce development in those enclosed public places otherwise regulated by the department. If neither department otherwise regulates an enclosed public place where smoking is […]
§ 39-17-1807. Penalties
A person who knowingly smokes in an area where smoking is prohibited by this part shall be subject only to a civil penalty of fifty dollars ($50.00). A person who owns, manages, operates or otherwise controls any public place where smoking is prohibited pursuant to this part and who knowingly fails to comply with any […]
§ 39-17-1801. Short Title
This part shall be known and may be cited as the “Non-Smoker Protection Act.”