Southampton Village, NY Public Conduct: Outdoor Smoking Restrictions (2026)

Section 82-3.1 of the Southampton Village Code, added by Local Law No. 1-2010 on April 8, 2010, is a site-by-site smoking ban rather than a blanket rule for every public place. The Board of Trustees wrote it in three parts.

Subsection A bans smoking outright at two named parks, Downs Family Park and Windward Way Park. It sets no distance limit and no time limit, so the whole of each park is covered. Subsection B is narrower: at Agawam Park the ban applies only within 50 feet of any playground apparatus or equipment located in the park, and a smoker elsewhere in Agawam Park is outside the section. Subsection C covers Cooper's Neck Beach, including the ocean beach and the property used in connection with the municipal bathing facility. There the ban reaches 50 feet from the concession building and its related improvements, which the code lists as deck areas, shower areas and ramps, and it applies only during the hours of operation of the municipal bathing facility.

The section does not name Village streets, sidewalks, the Village Business District or the rest of the ocean beach, so smoking at those places does not violate § 82-3.1. Smoking is also addressed in Chapter 58, Fire Prevention, Article II, where it is prohibited to remove a legally required "no smoking" sign or to smoke in any place where such signs are posted, and the signs read "by order of the Fire Marshal."

Section 82-3.1 sits in Chapter 82, Peace and Good Order, Article I. Section 82-11 sends every violation of that article to the penalties in Article II of Chapter 1 of the Village Code.