P.R. Laws tit. 24, § 892

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§ 892. Prohibition

Smoking is prohibited at all times in the following places:

(a) Public buildings, departments, agencies, public instrumentalities and public corporations of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.

(b) Classrooms, meeting halls, libraries, halls, school lunchrooms, cafeterias, and rest rooms in schools, and public and private institutions at all learning levels.

(c) Elevators for public use for the transportation of passengers and cargo in public and private buildings.

(d) Theaters and movie houses.

(e) Public and private hospitals and health centers.

(f) Public transportation vehicles, official vehicles and public or private ambulances.

(g) Restaurants, cafeterias, coffee shops, bakeries, establishments devoted to the sale of food and fast food establishments.

(h) Museums.

(i) Funeral parlors.

(j) Courts.

(k) Areas that contain flammable fluids, gasses or materials.

(l) Gasoline retail sales service stations.

(m) Public or private child care centers.

(n) Public or private recreational installations.

(o) Elderly care centers.

(p) Bars, pubs, discotheques, and liquor stores.

(q) Casinos.

(r) Business establishments and convention centers.

(s) Shopping centers.

(t) Any work setting in where there are one (1) or more employees. This prohibition shall not prevent employees or other persons from being able to smoke outdoors and outside the work space.

(u) Private transportation vehicles when there is a minor in a car seat present or when there is a child under the age of thirteen (13).

History —Aug. 3, 1993, No. 40, § 3; Aug. 13, 1996, No. 133, § 2; Jan. 6, 1998, No. 11, § 2; Aug. 21, 1999, No. 287, § 2; Aug. 24, 2000, No. 188, § 1; Mar. 2, 2006, No. 66, § 2.