Chandler, AZ Public Conduct: Outdoor Smoking Restrictions (2026)
Key Facts
- Main entrance buffer
- 25 feet
- Secondary entrance buffer
- 10 feet
- First-offense fine
- $50
- Repeat-offense fine cap
- $400 (3rd+ within 12 mo.)
- E-cigarettes
- Banned in City buildings/campus
Summary
Chandler bans smoking within 25 feet of a building's main entrance and 10 feet of any secondary entrance where indoor smoking is already prohibited, except in designated outdoor patios at restaurants or bars. City Code § 11-7.4 also bars smoking trash receptacles inside that buffer.
Except for designated outdoor smoking patios at restaurants or bars, smoking is prohibited within twenty-five (25) feet of the main entrance or ten (10) feet of any secondary, side or back entrance of any enclosed public place where smoking is prohibited. Any smoking area provided outdoors shall not require others to walk through it upon entering. To discourage smoking around entrances, all smoking trash receptacles will be placed beyond the twenty-five (25) feet limit.
Official source re-checked September 7, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: Code of Ordinances: Supplement 79).
Full Breakdown
2 prohibits smoking in any place owned or occupied by the City, in any public place, business, or place of employment, in restaurants, and on the entire exterior campus of City Hall (including the Council Chambers, Neighborhood Resources building, and parking garage near Arizona Avenue and Chicago Street). ' The section adds that a smoking area provided outdoors cannot require others to walk through it to enter the building, and that all smoking trash receptacles must be placed beyond the 25-foot line to discourage smoking at entrances.
3 separately exempts bars, bowling alley bars, accessory bars, retail tobacco stores, and hotel/motel smoking rooms from the underlying indoor ban when they are physically separated and separately ventilated, and exempts private residences except when used as a childcare facility, adult day care, or group home. 5: their use is prohibited in City buildings and across the same City Hall exterior campus, independent of the 25-foot buffer. 6. 7(D), and the smoking employer-policy requirement dates to October 1, 2003 with penalties effective January 1, 2004.
Violations & Fines
Smoking in a required smoke-free area, including within the 25-foot/10-foot entrance buffer, is a civil offense under § 11-7.7(A): $50 for a first offense, $100 for a second, $200 for a third, and $400 for each offense after that within a rolling twelve-month period. An owner, manager, or employer who knowingly fails to post required signage, remove ashtrays, or report violators faces a separate fine of up to $500 under § 11-7.7(B), and each day a violation continues is its own separate civil offense under § 11-7.7(C).
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Sources & Official References
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