Overview
Overview of the Yukon Smoke-free Places Act
No smoking is permitted in the following enclosed places:
- daycare, pre-school
- school, community college or university [also, no smoking on school grounds]
- library, art gallery or museum
- health-care facility
- cinema or theatre
- video arcade, pool hall, billiards room
- recreational facility where the primary activity is physical recreation, including a bowling alley, fitness centre, gymnasium, pool or rink
- multi-service centre, community centre/hall, arena, fire hall or church hall
- meeting or conference room or hall, ballroom or conference centre
- retail shop, boutique, market or store or shopping mall
- laundromat
- ferries, ferry station, bus, bus station or shelter, taxi, taxi shelter, limousine or vehicle carrying passengers for hire
- common area of a commercial building or multi-unit residential building, including but not limited to corridors, lobbies, stairwells, elevators, escalators, escalators, eating areas, washrooms and restrooms
- restaurants, lounges, beverage rooms, private clubs, cabarets, clubs or other places licensed to serve alcoholic beverages
- bingos
- a facility as defined in the Hospitals Act
- offices of the Yukon government, a municipality, a village or First Nation
- territorial jail
Vehicles
- no smoking in vehicles used in the course of employment while carrying two or more employees
- no smoking in vehicles where there are children under the age of 18 years present
Restaurants
- no smoking at any time
Beverage rooms & lounges
- no smoking at any time
Places used for bingo
- no smoking at any time
Private clubs
- no smoking at any time
Casinos
- no smoking at any time
Outdoor eating or drinking area
- no smoking at any time on patios or any other outdoors eating or drinking area
Nursing home or residential care facility
- Designated smoking rooms are permitted
- must be enclosed and separately ventilated
- only residents are permitted
- signs must be posted at the entrance
Effective Date
- In force May 15, 2008