Kenosha County, WI Public Conduct: Outdoor Smoking Restrictions (2026)

01 adopts by reference the regulatory text of numerous Wisconsin Statutes, exclusive of their penalty provisions, and substitutes county-set forfeitures. 123 Clean Indoor Air heading, the county adopts Wis. 123 (excluding subsection (8)) and layers on its own outdoor rule: no person may smoke where the person in lawful possession of the premises has prohibited it, and no person may smoke, use tobacco in any form, or use a nicotine or nicotine-substitute delivery device such as an e-cigarette in any county-owned, leased, maintained, or occupied building or property, including county vehicles and every outside parking area, lot, ramp, or garage tied to those locations.

County-owned parks and golf courses get a carve-out from that outdoor sweep, but the ban still reaches any enclosed structure on those properties and any spot within 25 feet of one. The ordinance defines "smoke" as carrying or possessing a lighted cigarette, cigar, pipe, other lighted smoking equipment, or an e-cigarette, and defines "e-cigarette" broadly to cover any device that vaporizes liquid nicotine or similar substances to simulate smoking, regardless of its marketed name. A cessation product used to help someone quit smoking is expressly excluded from the ban.

01 applies wherever county-owned or county-occupied property sits, unlike Chapter 12 zoning it is not limited to the unincorporated towns; it reaches county buildings and grounds inside the City of Kenosha as well.