Indianapolis, IN Public Conduct: Outdoor Smoking Restrictions (2026)

Sec. 616-203 of the Code of Indianapolis & Marion County sets two flat prohibitions. Subsection (a) bars smoking in all vehicles and enclosed areas within buildings that the city or county, or any of their offices, agencies or departments, own, lease or operate, whenever those spaces are used for a governmental function. Subsection (b) bars smoking in all public parks outright, with no square-footage or distance qualifier. That matters because Sec. 616-204's exceptions, which carve out private residences, retail tobacco stores, and certain private membership clubs that opted in by a 2012 vote, apply only to 'sections 616-201 through 616-202,' the general public-place and workplace bans; the text does not extend those exemptions to Sec.

616-203, so government buildings and parks have no carve-out for private clubs or bona-fide-member events. 'Smoking' is defined broadly in Sec. 616-101(l) to include lit cigarettes, cigars, pipes, other lit smoking equipment, and e-cigarettes, though it excludes burning incense. Enforcement runs through the deputy director of the Division of Construction and Business Services, fire department personnel authorized to conduct fire inspections, Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department officers, and the Health and Hospital Corporation of Marion County's division of public health, per Sec. 616-401(a). Owners, managers or employees of a regulated space must tell violators about the rule and ask them to stop smoking.