Each employer who operates an office or offices in the City shall within three months of the adoption of this chapter, adopt, implement and maintain a written smoking policy which shall contain, at a minimum, the following provisions and requirements:
(a) Any nonsmoking employee may object in writing to his or her employer about smoke in the workplace. Using already available means of ventilation or separation or partition of office space, the employer shall attempt to arrange an environment in which there is a location where the nonsmoker works which is smoke-free. The employer, however, is not required to make any expenditure for structural changes to accommodate the preferences of nonsmoking or smoking employees.
(b) If an arrangement complying with the above paragraph cannot be reached in any given office workplace, the employer shall prohibit smoking in that office workplace. Where the employer prohibits smoking in an office workplace, the area in which smoking is prohibited shall be clearly marked with signs.
(Ord. 1988-028. Passed 2-9-88.)