Waynesville, MO Public Conduct: Outdoor Smoking Restrictions (2026)
Key Facts
- City building buffer
- 50 feet, § 210.320
- Youth sports event buffer
- 100 feet, § 210.340
- Playground rule
- Banned citywide at City playgrounds
- Covered products
- E-cigarettes, cigars, pipes, smokeless tobacco
- Penalty section
- § 100.060 per § 210.320(E)
- Adopted
- Ord. 738 (1992), amended Ord. 2513 (2022)
Summary
In the City of Waynesville, Missouri, smoking or using tobacco products is barred within fifty feet of any City building and within one hundred feet of City-owned property during youth sporting events. The rule also blocks lighted or heated tobacco products, including e-cigarettes, and smokeless tobacco within any City playground, such as the Little Heroes Playground and the Splash Pad.
No person shall smoke or use other tobacco products within fifty (50) feet of any City building. ... The use of lighted or heated smoking materials that include but are not limited to e-cigarettes, vapor apparatus, cigarettes, cigars, pipes or other tobacco products is prohibited within one hundred (100) feet of any property or premise owned by the City of Waynesville during youth sporting events. This includes any smoke that may travel through any spectator area or playing field due to high winds or weather. The use of lighted or heated smoking materials that include but are not limited to e-cigarettes, vapor apparatus, cigarettes, cigars, pipes or other tobacco products is prohibited within any City playground, such as the Little Heroes Playground, the Splash Park, or any property or premise owned by the City of Waynesville that incorporates playgrounds for children.
Full Breakdown
Section 210.320 of the Waynesville Municipal Code prohibits smoking or using other tobacco products, defined to include e-cigarettes, vapor apparatus, cigarettes, cigars, pipes, chew, snuff and any smokeless tobacco, within fifty (50) feet of any City building, and while driving or riding in any City vehicle. The City Administrator posts signs marking City Hall, at 100 Tremont Center, and any designated fifty-foot smoking areas. Section 210.340 extends the ban outdoors: lighted or heated smoking materials and smokeless tobacco are prohibited within one hundred (100) feet of any City-owned property or premise during youth sporting events, and that buffer expressly reaches smoke carried by wind or weather through a spectator area or playing field.
Separately, any lighted or heated smoking material is barred within any City playground that serves children, including the Little Heroes Playground and the Splash Pad, with no stated distance limit there; the playground ban is citywide wherever the City owns a children's playground. A parallel rule in § 210.350 bars drinking alcohol within one hundred feet of a youth sports event on City property or a City playground. Section 210.320 was adopted by Ord. No. 738 in 1992 and amended by Ord. No. 2513 on March 29, 2022; § 210.340 was adopted by Ord. No. 2310 in 2018 and amended by Ord. No. 2458 in 2021.
Violations & Fines
Anyone convicted of smoking within fifty feet of a City building, in a City vehicle, within one hundred feet of a youth sporting event on City property, or in a City playground such as the Little Heroes Playground or the Splash Pad is punished according to § 100.060 of the Municipal Code, per § 210.320(E). The Waynesville Police Department and City Administrator's office handle signage and enforcement.
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