Pomona, CA Public Conduct: Outdoor Smoking Restrictions (2026)

Under City Code Sec. " The section sits in Article III, Public Conduct in Parks, alongside 15 other prohibited acts such as camping, kindling fires outside designated areas, and failing to pick up animal droppings, so smoking is treated with the same seriousness as those park offenses. Because the ban is listed without qualification, it reaches every public park in the city at all hours the park is open, covering picnic tables, sports fields, playgrounds and walking paths alike, not just areas near children's equipment.

Enforcement runs through the park officer chain established in Sec. 38-71: any person who "fails, refuses or neglects to comply with any lawful order of the director, the superintendent of parks, any park foreman or park employee acting as special police officer" in enforcing this chapter is separately guilty of a misdemeanor, meaning a ranger's on-site order carries its own charge if ignored. The definitions carried in the parks chapter (Sec. 38-1) sweep in more than cigarettes: "Smoking" covers possessing a lighted pipe, hookah pipe, cigar or lighted cigarette of any kind, operating an electronic smoking device, or lighting or igniting any of those items, so vape pens and hookahs are treated the same as traditional cigarettes. The current text traces to Ord. No. 4198, adopted March 2, 2015, which amended the definitions section and the specific-acts list together.