A. In public areas of health care facilities and hospitals, as defined in the California Health and Safety Code, including waiting rooms, public hallways and lobbies, all smoking is prohibited, except in specially designated smoking areas, which may be all or part of a public area.
B. Every publicly or privately owned health care facility, including hospitals, shall make a reasonable effort to determine preference and to assign patients placed in rooms to be occupied by two or more patients according to the patient's individual non-smoking or smoking preference.
C. In patients' rooms occupied by non-smoking patients, smoking shall be prohibited for hospital staff, visitors, and the general public. The provisions of § 8.52.100 shall not apply to this subsection C.
(Ord. 777, passed 7-16-85)