Minnetonka, MN Public Conduct: Outdoor Smoking Restrictions (2026)

Outdoor smoking rules in the Minnetonka City Code, adopted by the Minnetonka City Council, run through two sections. Section 1045.032, added by Ord. No. 2024-19 effective 1-4-2025, covers cannabis and related products in public places. Subdivision 1 makes it a petty misdemeanor to use cannabis flower, cannabis products, lower-potency hemp edibles, or hemp-derived consumer products within 50 feet of any city-maintained outdoor swimming beach, playground, other outdoor facility used for sports or athletics, park shelter, warming house, refreshment stand, or public restroom. Subdivision 2 is a flat smoking ban: it is a petty misdemeanor to vaporize or smoke cannabis flower, cannabis products, artificially derived cannabinoids or hemp-derived consumer products on any city park property, including recreational trails located within a park property but not trails located outside a park property, or on any part of a property upon which any city-operated building is located. Terms carry the meanings in Minnesota Statutes, section 342.01, and where a location falls under both subdivisions the most restrictive provision applies.

Tobacco is handled in the park regulations. Section 1135.020, subdivision 18 prohibits use of tobacco-related products, as defined at section 625.005, within 50 feet of outdoor swimming beaches, playgrounds, other outdoor facilities used for sports or athletics, park shelters, warming houses, refreshment stands, or public restrooms. Section 625.005 defines tobacco-related products to include tobacco, tobacco-related devices, electronic delivery devices and nicotine and lobelia delivery products, which pulls vaping devices into the rule. The same subdivision points cannabis, lower-potency hemp edibles and hemp-derived consumer products back to section 1045.032.

Section 1135.020, subdivision 5 adds that a person must not start or maintain a fire in a park except in grills, fire slabs, or fire rings provided as part of the park facility, and that the smoking of cigarettes, cigars and pipes is regulated elsewhere in the section. Park facilities include parks, beaches, recreational trails, athletic fields, skating rinks and adjacent parking lots, open from 5:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m.