Where Nobody May Smoke

New York's Clean Indoor Air Act lists the indoor areas where no person smokes or vapes, and adds a few outdoor ones.

• Pub. Health Law § 1399-o

• Places of employment, bars, and food service establishments, with a narrow exception elsewhere in the article.
• Mass transportation, including subways and stations, and buses, vans, taxicabs and limousines when occupied by passengers; ticketing, boarding and waiting areas in terminals.
• Child care facilities and child day care centers, group homes and residential treatment facilities for children, and youth centers.
• Colleges and universities, including dormitories and residence halls.
• Hospitals and residential health care facilities, commercial establishments, indoor arenas, zoos and bingo facilities.

• Pub. Health Law § 1399-o

Outdoors too. The grounds of general hospitals and residential health care facilities within fifteen feet of a building entrance or exit, and ticketing, boarding and platform areas of MTA railroad stations.

• Pub. Health Law § 1399-o

Cannabis smoking, local ordinances that go further, rules in rental leases, and how a complaint is made and enforced are outside this page. Whether a particular place falls inside an exception is a question for a licensed New York attorney or the agency that enforces the law.

• Pub. Health Law § 1399-o