Elgin, IL Public Conduct: Outdoor Smoking Restrictions (2026)

020, with the ordinance's own terms controlling whenever they are more restrictive than the state act. 010 defines 'tobacco product' broadly to include lighted or unlighted cigarettes, electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS), cigarillos, pipes, hookah products, marijuana, herbs, and smokeless products like dip, chew, snuff, or snus, plus any nicotine delivery device not FDA-approved as a cessation product. ' The chapter's 'parks' definition sweeps in unenclosed exterior areas, buildings, and parking lots on park property, but expressly excludes city golf courses, the Festival Park lawn area, and the sports complex athletic fields while they are programmed for organized adult athletic events.

040 sets the penalty structure: a person who uses tobacco in a city park in violation of the chapter is fined $100 for a first offense and $250 for each subsequent offense, a separate and lower schedule than the fines applying to Smoke-Free Illinois Act smoking violations elsewhere in the city, which run $100/$250 for individual smokers and up to $2,500 for a business that fails to enforce the state act's requirements.