Okla. Stat. tit. 63, § 63-1-1523

A. Except as specifically provided in the Smoking in Public

Places and Indoor Workplaces Act, no person shall smoke tobacco or

marijuana or vape marijuana in a public place, in any part of a zoo

to which the public may be admitted, whether indoors or outdoors, in

an indoor workplace, in any vehicle providing public transportation,

at a meeting of a public body, in a nursing facility licensed

pursuant to the Nursing Home Care Act, or in a child care facility

licensed pursuant to the Oklahoma Child Care Facilities Licensing

Act. A nursing facility licensed pursuant to the Nursing Home Care

Act may designate tobacco smoking rooms for residents and their

guests. Such rooms shall be fully enclosed, directly exhausted to

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the outside, and shall be under negative air pressure so that no

tobacco smoke can escape when a door is opened and no air is

recirculated to nonsmoking areas of the building. Commercial

airport operators may prohibit the use of lighted tobacco or lighted

marijuana or the vaping of marijuana in any area that is open to or

used by the public whether located indoors or outdoors, provided

that the outdoor area is within one hundred seventy-five (175) feet

from an entrance.

B. 1. Except as otherwise provided in paragraph 2 of this

subsection, a technology center school district which offers an

early childhood education program or in which children in grades

kindergarten through twelve are educated shall prohibit tobacco or

marijuana smoking or marijuana vaping, the use of marijuana

products, snuff, chewing tobacco or any other form of tobacco

product in the educational facility buildings and on the grounds of

the facility by all persons including, but not limited to, full-

time, part-time, and contract employees, during the hours of 7:00

a.m. to 4:00 p.m., during the school session, or when class or any

program established for students is in session.

2. A technology center school district may designate tobacco

smoking areas outside of buildings, away from general traffic areas

and completely out of sight of children under eighteen (18) years of

age, for use by adults attending training courses, sessions,

meetings or seminars.

3. A technology center school district or college or university

may designate tobacco smoking areas outside the educational facility

buildings for the use of adults during certain activities or

functions, including, but not limited to, athletic contests.

4. Smoking tobacco or marijuana or vaping marijuana shall be

prohibited in an educational facility as defined in the 24/7

Tobacco-free Schools Act and as provided for in Section 1210.213 of

Title 70 of the Oklahoma Statutes.

C. Nothing in this section shall be construed to prohibit

educational facilities from having more restrictive policies

regarding tobacco or marijuana smoking or marijuana vaping and the

use of other marijuana or tobacco products in the buildings or on

the grounds of the facility.

D. A private residence is not a "public place" within the

meaning of the Smoking in Public Places and Indoor Workplaces Act

except that areas in a private residence that are used as a licensed

child care facility during hours of operation are "public places"

within the meaning of the Smoking in Public Places and Indoor

Workplaces Act.

E. Smoking tobacco or marijuana or vaping marijuana is

prohibited in all vehicles owned by the State of Oklahoma and all of

its agencies and instrumentalities.

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F. Veterans centers operated by this state pursuant to the

provisions of Section 221 et seq. of Title 72 of the Oklahoma

Statutes shall be designated nonsmoking effective January 1, 2015,

at which time veterans centers may establish outdoor designated

smoking areas for resident veterans only. Smoking tobacco shall

only be allowed in designated outdoor smoking areas.
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F. Veterans centers operated by this state pursuant to the

provisions of Section 221 et seq. of Title 72 of the Oklahoma

Statutes shall be designated nonsmoking effective January 1, 2015,

at which time veterans centers may establish outdoor designated

smoking areas for resident veterans only. Smoking tobacco shall

only be allowed in designated outdoor smoking areas.

G. An employer not otherwise restricted from doing so may elect

to provide tobacco smoking rooms where no work is performed except

for cleaning and maintenance during the time the room is not in use

for tobacco smoking, provided each tobacco smoking room is fully

enclosed and exhausted directly to the outside, in such manner that

no tobacco smoke can drift or circulate into a nonsmoking area. No

exhaust from a tobacco smoking room shall be located within fifteen

(15) feet of any entrance, exit or air intake. If tobacco smoking

is to be permitted in any space exempted in subsection H of this

section or in a tobacco smoking room pursuant to subsection I of

this section, such tobacco smoking space must either occupy the

entire enclosed indoor space or, if it shares the enclosed space

with any nonsmoking areas, the tobacco smoking space shall be fully

enclosed, exhausted directly to the outside with no air from the

tobacco smoking space circulated to any nonsmoking area, and under

negative air pressure so that no tobacco smoke can drift or

circulate into a nonsmoking area when a door to an adjacent

nonsmoking area is opened. Air from a tobacco smoking room shall

not be exhausted within fifteen (15) feet of any entrance, exit or

air intake.

H. The Smoking in Public Places and Indoor Workplaces Act shall

not prohibit tobacco smoking in:

1. Stand-alone bars, stand-alone taverns or cigar bars;

2. The room or rooms where licensed charitable bingo games are

being operated, but only during the hours of operation of such

games;

3. Up to twenty-five percent (25%) of the guest rooms at a

hotel or other lodging establishment;

4. Retail tobacco stores predominantly engaged in the sale of

tobacco products and accessories and in which the sale of other

products is merely incidental and in which no food or beverage is

sold or served for consumption on the premises;

5. Workplaces where only the owner or operator of the

workplace, or the immediate family of the owner or operator,

performs any work in the workplace, and the workplace has only

incidental public access;

6. Workplaces occupied exclusively by one or more tobacco

smokers, if the workplace has only incidental public access.

"Incidental public access" means that a place of business has only

an occasional person, who is not an employee, present at the

business to transact business or make a delivery. It does not

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include businesses that depend on walk-in customers for any part of

their business;

7. Private offices occupied exclusively by one or more smokers;

8. Workplaces within private residences, except that smoking

tobacco or marijuana or vaping marijuana shall not be allowed inside

any private residence that is used as a licensed child care facility

during hours of operation;

9. A facility operated by a post or organization of past or

present members of the Armed Forces of the United States which is

exempt from taxation pursuant to Sections 501(c)(8), 501(c)(10) or

501(c)(19) of the Internal Revenue Code, 26 U.S.C., Section

501(c)(8), 501(c)(10) or 501(c)(19), when such facility is utilized

exclusively by its members and their families and for the conduct of

post or organization nonprofit operations except during an event or

activity which is open to the public;

10. Any outdoor seating area of a restaurant; provided, tobacco

or marijuana smoking or vaping marijuana shall not be allowed within

fifteen (15) feet of any exterior public doorway or any air intake
acility is utilized

exclusively by its members and their families and for the conduct of

post or organization nonprofit operations except during an event or

activity which is open to the public;

10. Any outdoor seating area of a restaurant; provided, tobacco

or marijuana smoking or vaping marijuana shall not be allowed within

fifteen (15) feet of any exterior public doorway or any air intake

of a restaurant; and

11. Medical research or treatment centers, if tobacco smoking

is integral to the research or treatment. Furthermore, the

restrictions on smoking or vaping of marijuana provided in this

section shall not apply to medical research or treatment centers, if

marijuana smoking or vaping is integral to the research or

treatment.

I. Notwithstanding any other provision of the Smoking in Public

Places and Indoor Workplaces Act, until March 1, 2006, restaurants

may have designated tobacco smoking and nonsmoking areas or may be

designated as being a totally nonsmoking area. Beginning March 1,

2006, restaurants shall be totally nonsmoking or may provide

nonsmoking areas and designated tobacco smoking rooms. Food and

beverage may be served in such designated tobacco smoking rooms

which shall be in a location which is fully enclosed, directly

exhausted to the outside, under negative air pressure so tobacco

smoke cannot escape when a door is opened, and no air is

recirculated to nonsmoking areas of the building. No exhaust from

such room shall be located within twenty-five (25) feet of any

entrance, exit or air intake. Such room shall be subject to

verification for compliance with the provisions of this subsection

by the State Department of Health.