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Nonsmoking Common Areas <br />Description -Restricting smoking in both indoor common areas, which includes hallways, stairwells, <br />laundry rooms and recreation rooms, and outdoor common areas, which includes swimming pools, play <br />areas, outdoor eating areas and courtyards, of multi-unit housing. <br />State Law-Smoking is prohibited in indoor common areas of apartments and condominiums if the <br />areas are places of employment. These areas are places of employment if there is an employee who <br />works on the property such as an on-site property manager, security guard or maintenance worker. <br />Grade Criteria <br />A-Smoking restricted in all indoor and outdoor common areas, including ordinances that allow for <br />designated smoking areas in outdoor common areas <br />C-Smoking restricted in all indoor common areas, but not outdoor common areas <br />F - No restrictions on smoking in common areas <br />Disclosure <br />Description -Requiring the landlords of apartments or the sellers of condominiums to disclose to <br />potential tenants and potential buyers information about the smoking restrictions at the property. This <br />information can include general smoking policies, whether the unit they are renting or selling is smoking <br />or nonsmoking and the location of smoking and nonsmoking units. <br />State Law-There are no statewide requirements for disclosure of smokefree housing policies. <br />Grade Criteria <br />A -Requirements to disclose if the unit is smoking or nonsmoking and other information about the <br />smoking policy for the property for both apartments and condominiums <br />B -Requirements to disclose if the unit is smoking or nonsmoking and other information about the <br />smoking policy for the property for only apartments or only condominiums <br />F - No disclosure requirements for multi-unit housing <br />Nuisance <br />Description -Declaring involuntary exposure to secondhand smoke a nuisance, which allows for <br />members of the public to use nuisance abatement laws to stop the exposure. <br />State Law-There is no statewide declaration that specifically declares secondhand smoke a nuisance. <br />However, California law does declare anything that is injurious to health or obstructs the free use of <br />property, so as to interfere with the comfortable enjoyment of life or property, a nuisance. Under this <br />definition it is possible to prove involuntary secondhand smoke as a nuisance, but specifically declaring <br />that exposure as a nuisance lowers the burden of proof and makes it easier to stop that exposure. <br />Grade Criteria <br />1 bonus point-Secondhand smoke exposure is declared a nuisance throughout the city or declared a <br />nuisance within a housing setting <br />RED~CfPV~ SAi.E~ C? ~"~~~~CC~ P~~3~~l~` <br />Description - An important aspect of reducing the smoking prevalence rates in California is to reduce the <br />availability and sales of tobacco. This reduction in access to tobacco products can be done through <br />requiring locations that sell tobacco products to meet certain requirements, through limiting where <br />tobacco products can be sold, or through regulating the sampling or other free distribution of tobacco <br />products. <br />~'{4 <br />Page 4 of 6 <br />