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

Section 7.30.030 sits in Chapter 7.30, Smoking and Tobacco Prohibitions, whose stated purpose in § 7.30.010 is to protect against wildfires and discourage minors' access to tobacco. 'Smoke' or 'smoking' is defined broadly in § 7.30.020 to include inhaling, exhaling, burning or carrying any lighted or heated cigar, cigarette or pipe, or any tobacco or plant product intended for inhalation, and explicitly reaches electronic smoking devices that create an aerosol or vapor, so vaping is covered on the same terms as combustible tobacco. Subsection A bars smoking on any public trail within the City, defined in § 7.30.020 as a route identified in the Trails Element of the Santee General Plan or posted as a trail through signage, a category that reaches the Santee Lakes and Mission Trails-adjacent trail network.

Subsection B separately bars smoking anywhere within a City park, without carving out any open-air or distance exception the way some cities do for park perimeters. Subsection C yields where federal or state law preempts local smoking regulation or is itself more restrictive. Subsection D authorizes the Director of Community Services to install and maintain permanent 'No Smoking' signs at every public trail to support enforcement, though the section's park-wide ban does not depend on signage the way the trail provision's enforcement tool does.