(A) In public areas of health care facilities and hospitals, as defined in Cal. Health & Safety Code § 1250, including waiting rooms, public hallways and lobbies, 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 occupied by two or more patients according to the patient's individual nonsmoking or smoking preference. Where a nonsmoker is placed in a room with a smoker, the rights of the nonsmoker shall be given precedence.
(C) In rooms and areas occupied by patients smoking shall be prohibited for hospital staff, visitors and the general public. “STAFF AND VISITOR SMOKING PROHIBITED” signs and/or the international logo sign for no-smoking shall be conspicuously posted in each patient room.
(D) In child care facilities, including those in private homes, during operating hours in rooms where children are present, smoking is prohibited.
('61 Code, § 15.62) (Ord. 930, passed - - ) Penalty, see § 130.999