The designater of smoking sections should also take reasonable precautions to protect the health of non-smokers using the place or vehicle through a separation, partition or ventilation that ensures that non-smokers in the place or in the vehicle are not exposed to the active by-products of smokers` smoke in the place or in the vehicle. However, the law strictly prohibits naming a smoking area for students on the premises or in a primary or secondary school, indoors or outdoors. [v] Procedures for dealing with and reporting violations of smoking rules are developed by the Commissioner of Health and Social Affairs. Where the Commissioner determines that an offence has occurred, the Commissioner may bring a civil action before the District Court or an employee of the department designated by the Commissioner may issue a quote. A person who contravenes the rules governing smoking and against whom the Commissioner has instituted a civil proceeding under this section shall be fined at least $10 or more than $50. A person who contravenes the rules and against whom the Commissioner has instituted a civil proceeding under this section shall be fined at least $20 or more than $300. Each day that a violation of the rules continues after a civil action for the violation has been brought and served on the defendant is a separate violation. The Ministry of Health and Social Affairs may also provide for the payment of the fines provided for in this section by post. [viii] (B) 20 feet of an entrance, open window or air intake ventilation of a heating or ventilation system in an enclosed area where smoking is prohibited under this section; or It is also forbidden to smoke in a room, chamber or other place under the control of the State while a public meeting or public meeting is taking place. (a) A person may not smoke in an enclosed area of a public place, including an enclosed place In Alaska, it is forbidden to smoke in any form inside, including public or private elementary or secondary schools, kindergartens or daycares located in a building that is also a private residence. This restriction only applies during periods when the dormitory is used as a school or daycare and only to the specific building where the school or daycare is located. The prohibition does not apply to a designated smoking area that is properly ventilated or equipped with an exhaust fan in a public or private primary or secondary school if the area is located in a room where minors are not allowed. A smoking area must also be designated in the school to comply with a collective agreement on employees working at the school.

(iv) smoking is limited to the use of an electronic cigarette; The person who chairs the Rules Committee of a House of Assembly is responsible for designating the smoking sections covered by that section in the legislative offices, committee rooms and other places under the control of that House. The power to designate a smoking section should not be used to interfere with the work of a conference committee. h) Nothing in this section prohibits a person from smoking Unfortunately, the bill was watered down at the last minute to include a “local withdrawal” provision. The opt-out language is not a new idea or a local idea. This is a policy agenda developed by Big Tobacco in the late 1990s and early 2000s to undermine public health protections that would eliminate exposure to second-hand tobacco smoke and help reduce smoking rates.

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