Mobile, AL Public Conduct: Outdoor Smoking Restrictions (2026)
Key Facts
- Covers
- all city parks and playgrounds
- Fine
- $70 plus court costs
- Buffer near buildings
- 15 feet (7 ft minimum)
- Enforced by
- police, fire, health dept.
Summary
Mobile prohibits smoking and all tobacco product use in every municipally owned park, playground, and outdoor recreational area, from ballfields to walking trails and parking lots.
Smoking is and shall be prohibited in all areas of municipally owned or operated parks, playgrounds, or public use lands where the general public congregates, including but not limited to public bleacher areas, pavilions, concession areas, playgrounds, outdoor cooking areas, gazebos, tennis courts, pools, playing fields, dugouts, skate parks, parking lots, and walking/running trails or track areas, and other outdoor locations where the public may gather. It shall be unlawful for any person to smoke in any of these areas.(b)The use of tobacco or tobacco products is not permitted in all areas of municipally owned or operated parks, playgrounds, or public use lands where the general public congregates, including but not limited to public bleacher areas, pavilions, concession areas, playgrounds, outdoor cooking areas, gazebos, tennis courts, pools, playing fields, dugouts, skate parks, parking lots, and walking/running trails or track areas, and other outdoor locations where the public may gather. It shall be unlawful for any person to use tobacco or tobacco products in any of these areas. For purposes of this section, the term "tobacco or tobacco products" shall mean any tobacco or any product containing tobacco, including but not limited to the following:(1)Cigarettes;(2)Cigars;(3)Chewing tobacco;(4)Snuff;(5)Pipe tobacco;(6)Smokeless tobacco. (Ord. No. 27-022-2012, § 3, 8-21-12; Ord. No. 27-084-2015, § 2, 10-13-15)
Official source re-checked September 7, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: Code of Ordinances: Supplement 67).
Full Breakdown
Mobile's ban covers all municipally owned or operated parks, playgrounds, and public-use lands where people congregate: bleachers, pavilions, pools, playing fields, skate parks, parking lots, and trails are named specifically in the ordinance. Section 27-63 separately bars smoking and use of any tobacco product (cigarettes, cigars, chewing tobacco, snuff, pipe tobacco, smokeless tobacco) in these outdoor areas, layered on top of the city's indoor public-place and workplace smoking bans found elsewhere in the same article.
Violations & Fines
A $70 fine plus court costs, up to six months of community service, or both, at the judge's discretion; each day of violation is a separate offense under Sec. 27-70.
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