A.    Smoking shall be prohibited in all enclosed public places within the unincorporated areas of Alameda County, including, but not limited to, the following places:

    1.    All enclosed facilities owned or operated by the county of Alameda;

    2.    Elevators;

    3.    Buses, taxicabs, and other means of public transit under the authority of Alameda County, and ticket, boarding and waiting areas of public transit depots;

    4.    Outdoor areas near any entrance or exit to any facility in which smoking is prohibited. Smokers must maintain a “reasonable distance” of at least fifteen (15) feet from all such entrances, exits, windows, ventilation systems or any other means and to ensure that those indoors and those entering or leaving the building are not involuntarily exposed to secondhand tobacco smoke;

    5.    Service lines;

    6.    All areas available to and customarily used by the general public in all businesses and nonprofit entities patronized by the public, including but not limited to laundromats, indoor and outdoor dining areas of restaurants, hotels and motels, waiting rooms, hallways;

    7.    Public areas of aquariums, galleries, libraries, museums, and other exhibits open to the public;

    8.    Any facility used for exhibiting any motion picture, stage drama, musical recital or other similar performance, except when smoking is part of a stage production;

    9.    Sports arenas and convention halls;

    10.    Every room, chamber, place of meeting or public assembly, including school buildings under the control of any board, council, commission, committee, including joint committees, or agencies of the county or any political subdivision of the state to the extent such a place is subject to the jurisdiction of the county;

    11.    Lobbies, hallways, and other common areas in apartment buildings, condominiums, mobilehome parks, retirement facilities, nursing homes, and other multiple-unit residential facilities;

    12.    Restrooms, lobbies, hallways, and other common areas in multiple-unit commercial facilities;

    13.    Polling places;

    14.    Any other enclosed place open to the general public not regulated under the smoking restrictions in Section 6404.5 of the California Labor Code.

    B.    Notwithstanding any other provision of this section, any owner, operator, manager or other person who controls any establishment or facility may declare that entire establishment or facility as a nonsmoking establishment. (Ord. 98-6 § 1 (part))