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

Section 9-2.23 traces to Ordinance 004-08 (effective April 17, 2008), which first banned tobacco use in City parks and near facility entrances, and Ordinance 011-09 (effective December 3, 2009), which added the entrance-buffer language still in force. In 2015, Ordinance 006-15 retitled the section to fold in e-cigarettes and vapor devices explicitly, so a hookah pen or vape counts the same as a lit cigarette. The definitions are broad by design: 'tobacco product' sweeps in cigarettes, cigars, pipe tobacco, snuff, chewing and dipping tobacco and bidis, while 'e-cigarette' covers any electronic device with a heating element, battery or circuit that vaporizes nicotine or any other substance and simulates smoking, regardless of what the seller calls it, e-cigar, vape pen or hookah pen.

The ban has two zones: the interior of every City park, and a 50-foot radius around any public entrance to a City-owned or leased facility, such as City Hall at 1201 Civic Center Boulevard. Because Chapter 2 of Title 9 carries no special penalty clause for this section, a violation defaults to the citywide infraction schedule in Section 1-2.02: up to $100 for a first offense, $200 for a second violation of the same provision within a year, and $500 for each further violation, with each day of continuing violation counted separately. The Police Chief enforces the chapter's penal provisions and Public Works enforces the operational side under Section 9-2.30.