2C:33-13 Smoking in public.

2C:33-13  Smoking in public.

   2C:33-13.   Smoking in Public.  a.  Any person who smokes or carries lighted tobacco in or upon any bus or other public conveyance, except group charter buses, specially marked railroad smoking cars, limousines or livery services, and, when the driver is the only person in the vehicle, autocabs, is a petty disorderly person.  For the purposes of this section, "bus" includes school buses and other vehicles owned or contracted for by the governing body, board or individual of a nonpublic school, a public or private college, university, or professional training school, or a board of education of a school district, that are used to transport students to and from school and school-related activities; and the prohibition on smoking or carrying lighted tobacco shall apply even if students are not present in the vehicle.

   b.   Any person who smokes or carries lighted tobacco in any public place, including, but not limited to, places of public accommodation, where such smoking is prohibited by municipal ordinance under authority of R.S.40:48-1 and 40:48-2 or by the owner or person responsible for the operation of the public place, and when adequate notice of such prohibition has been conspicuously posted, is either: guilty of a petty disorderly persons offense  under this section, or subject to a civil penalty under section 1 of P.L.2017, c.191 (C.26:3D-65) if such civil penalty is provided for as an alternative to the offense under this subsection.  Notwithstanding the provisions of N.J.S.2C:43-3, the maximum fine which can be imposed for committing a petty disorderly persons offense under this section is $200.

   c.   The provisions of this section shall supersede any other statute and any rule or regulation adopted pursuant to law, except as provided in section 1 of P.L.2017, c.191 (C.26:3D-65).

   amended 1979, c.178, s.66A; 1985, c.187; 2003, c.233; 2017, c.191, s.2.