Sun Prairie, WI Public Conduct: Outdoor Smoking Restrictions (2026)
Key Facts
- Banned outdoor location
- All city parks
- Banned indoor locations
- City-owned and leased buildings
- Vehicles covered
- City-owned or leased vehicles
- Devices covered
- Includes e-cigarettes and vape pens
- Park/building penalty
- $100 to $300 forfeiture
- School grounds rule
- No vape device possession on school grounds
Summary
Sun Prairie extends Wisconsin's statewide smoking ban by adding its own outdoor and vehicle restrictions: smoking is banned in every city park, plus all city-owned buildings, leased city buildings and city vehicles, under Code § 8.48.010. The ban also reaches electronic smoking devices such as vape pens, and violators face a $100 to $300 forfeiture.
Smoking is prohibited in certain public areas: 1.Smoking shall be prohibited in all city parks, in all city owned and operated buildings, and in those buildings or portions of the buildings leased and operated by the city.2.City owned vehicles. Smoking shall be prohibited in all city owned and operated vehicles and those vehicles leased and operated by the city.
Official source re-checked September 7, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: Code of Ordinances: Supplement 71).
Full Breakdown
010 first adopts Wisconsin's statewide smoking ban, Wis. 123, by reference for the City of Sun Prairie, then layers on a locally defined version of "smoking" that supersedes the state definition for enforcement here: it covers lit or heated cigarettes, cigars and pipes, plus electronic smoking devices defined broadly enough to include vape pens, mods, tank systems and e-hookahs, whether they produce smoke, mist, aerosol or vapor. Subsection D adds the city's own prohibited-conduct list, separate from whatever the state ban already covers indoors: smoking is prohibited in all city parks, in all city-owned and operated buildings, and in buildings or portions of buildings the city leases and operates, plus every city-owned or leased vehicle.
020, repeats the building- and vehicle-level ban with its own lower forfeiture. 010(E) bars chewing or smoking tobacco products, and even possessing an electronic smoking device, in a school building or on school grounds, a stricter standard than the general park and building rule. The city police department is designated as the enforcement agency for the chapter. Because Sun Prairie's park ban is a local addition layered onto the statewide ban rather than a freestanding general outdoor smoking law, it reaches city parks and city facilities specifically; it does not, on its own, extend to purely private outdoor spaces such as restaurant patios, which remain governed by the state statute the city adopted by reference.
Violations & Fines
A conviction under § 8.48.010(F) draws a forfeiture of not less than $100 nor more than $300, and the Sun Prairie Police Department is named as the enforcing agency. The overlapping § 8.48.020(D) building-and-vehicle ban carries a separate, lower penalty: not less than $10 nor more than $25 per violation.
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