Redwood City, CA Public Conduct: Outdoor Smoking Restrictions (2026)

5, and the section lists fourteen illustrative categories: elevators and restrooms, taxicabs and public transit boarding areas, service lines, retail stores and grocery stores, offices, banks, hotels and motels, restaurants and bars, aquariums, libraries and museums, theaters and performance venues, sports arenas and convention halls, public meeting rooms, medical offices and hospital common areas, and polling places. Subsection (B) extends the ban outdoors into two specific zones of the public right-of-way: pedestrian malls under Chapter 20, Article VIII, and any area within twenty feet of an entrance, exit, window or other opening into a restaurant or bar.

, so anywhere smoking is barred under state law is barred here too. Subsection (D) lets any owner, operator or manager voluntarily declare an entire establishment nonsmoking even where the Article would otherwise allow it. 7 requires posted "No Smoking" signs with letters at least one inch tall, or the international no-smoking symbol, at every regulated building or place, posted by the owner, operator or manager. 8: Code Enforcement and the Chief of Police, or their designees, can issue infractions or citations, and the Article's fine schedule escalates with repeat violations within a rolling one-year period.