FALL 2016

| NEWSLETTER 2016 | ISSUE 2 | VOLUME 7

ARIZONA
DEPARTMENT
OF HEALTH
SERVICES

THE ACT

A.R.S. § 36-601.01 (“the Act”),

WHAT ABOUT
LOCAL ORDINANCES?

The Act does not prevent a political subdivision of
the State, such as counties or cities, from adopting
ordinances or regulations that are more restrictive than
the Act, nor does the Act repeal any existing ordinance
or regulation that is more restrictive than the Act. The
Act supersedes local ordinances that are less stringent.

HOW DOES IN-HOUSE
SMOKING POLICIES
WORK?

The Act allows proprietors to implement in-house
smoking policies that are more restrictive than the
Act in any areas under their control. For example,
some proprietors of public places and places of
employment in Arizona are choosing to provide smokefree campuses for their visitors, employees, and other
patrons. Many proprietors are also creating designated
smoking areas and allowing smoking only in those
areas. Please keep in mind that Smoke-Free Arizona
Program officials can only enforce the provisions
defined in the Act. This means that Smoke-Free Arizona
Program officials do not enforce local ordinances or inhouse smoking policies.

TO REPORT A
VIOLATION OR FILE A
COMPLAINT

prohibits smoking inside and within 20 feet of
entrances, open windows, and ventilation systems of
most enclosed public places and places of employment.
The main purpose of the Act is to protect workers,
customers, and the general public from the harmful
effects of secondhand smoke in most enclosed public
places and places of employment.

Go to www.smokefreearizona.org
Or call 1-877-4-AZNOSMOKE
(1-877-429-6676)