The Idaho Clean Indoor Air Act bans smoking in any enclosed indoor place of business, commerce, banking, financial service or other service-related activity, whether publicly or privately owned and whether operated for profit or not, to which persons not employed at the public place have general and regular access or which the public uses including:
- Buildings, offices, shops or restrooms;
- Waiting rooms for means of transportation or common carriers;
- Restaurants;
- Theaters, auditoriums, museums or art galleries;
- Hospitals, libraries, indoor shopping malls, indoor sports arenas, concert halls, or airport passenger terminals, and within 20 feet of public entrances and exits to such facilities;
- Public or private elementary or secondary school buildings and educational facilities and within 20 feet of entrances and exits of such buildings or facilities;
- Retail stores, grocery stores or arcades;
- Barbershops, hair salons or laundromats;
- Sports or fitness facilities;
- Common areas of nursing homes, resorts, hotels, motels, bed and breakfast lodging facilities and other similar lodging facilities, including lobbies, hallways, restaurants and other designated dining areas and restrooms of any of these;
- Any child care facility;
- Public means of mass transportation; and
- Any public place not exempted by section 39-5503, Idaho Code.
Posting Requirement
No smoking signs must be appropriately sized, conspicuous, and legible with letters at least one inch in height. (Idaho Admin. Code r. 16.02.23.200) Any employer or other person in charge of a public place or publicly-owned building or office who knowingly violates the provisions of this law is guilty of an infraction and is subject to a fine not to exceed one hundred dollars.
