New Mexico's Dee Johnson Clean Indoor Air Act bans smoking in workplaces, restaurants, and bars, and Albuquerque extends restrictions to city parks, sports fields, transit stops, and the Sunport, including vaping in many areas.
Indoor smoking in Albuquerque businesses is regulated by the Dee Johnson Clean Indoor Air Act (NM §24-16-1+), which prohibits smoking in nearly all indoor workplaces and public buildings. Albuquerque supplements the state law with local rules banning smoking and electronic cigarettes in city parks, on sports fields, near playgrounds, at transit stops, and on Sunport airport property. Cannabis smoking is governed separately by the New Mexico Cannabis Regulation Act, which forbids public consumption regardless of legality. Property owners may impose stricter no-smoking policies and signage is required at entrances to regulated spaces.
Smoking in a regulated indoor workplace or vaping in a posted park, playground, or transit area can result in civil fines, while public cannabis consumption carries additional state penalties.
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Under Noise Control Ordinance section 9-9-11, each act in violation is a public nuisance and a separate civil violation, carrying a $250 fine for the first o...
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Noise Control Ordinance section 9-9-7(B) bars operating power mowers, leaf blowers, rototillers, power saws, and similar outdoor power equipment within 500 f...
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Under ROA 1994 Sec. 8-5-1-4(b), Albuquerque may establish residential on-street permit parking zones where a study shows a significant portion of available p...
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In residential zones the Albuquerque IDO (Sec. 14-16-5-5(F)) limits how much of a front or street-side yard may be paved for parking - capped by lot size und...
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Albuquerque Code Section 8-5-2-3 declares a vehicle abandoned if it sits unattended on a public street for 36 hours, on private property without owner consen...
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On Albuquerque corner lots, the portion of a rear-yard wall abutting the front yard of a residential lot is held to the 3-foot front-yard limit within 10 fee...
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