Skip to content
Georgia Commons
Menu

Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 31. HEALTH · Chapter 12A. SMOKE-FREE AIR

31-12A-8. “No Smoking” signs; ashtrays prohibited in nonsmoking areas.

Active

Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Session of the General Assembly of Georgia.

  1. (a)

    “No Smoking” signs or the international “No Smoking” symbol consisting of a pictorial representation of a burning cigarette enclosed in a red circle with a red bar across it may be clearly and conspicuously posted by the owner, operator, manager, or other person in control in every public place and place of employment where smoking is prohibited by this chapter.#

  2. (b)

    All ashtrays shall be removed from any area where smoking is prohibited by this chapter by the owner, operator, manager, or other person in control of the area, unless such ashtray is permanently affixed to an existing structure.#

The notes below are printed with the section but are not enacted law (O.C.G.A. § 1-1-1(c)). They are shown apart from the text.

History

Code 1981, § 31-12A-8, enacted by Ga. L. 2005, p. 1184, § 2/SB 90.

Code Commission notes

Pursuant to Code Section 28-9-5, in 2005, “chapter” was substituted for “article” at the end of subsection (a).

Read the official page (the state's PDF, opened at the page this text was read from).

Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Session of the General Assembly of Georgia.

Text read from t31-(v23)-2025-pdf.pdf, Volume V23, 2025 edition, page 789; merge action: bound only; file SHA-256 ba5a57f85d04.