This chapter is not intended to regulate smoking in a private enclosed workplace, within a public place, even though such workplace may be visited by nonsmokers, excepting places in which smoking is prohibited by the chief of the Washington state patrol, through the director of fire protection, or by other law, ordinance, or regulation.
RCW 70.160.060
Intent of chapter as applied to certain private workplaces.
Applied in 4 court decisions — leading case American Legion Post 149 v. WASH. DEPT. OF HEALTH (2008)
Most recently applied in Utter v. Building Industry Ass'n (September 2013)
1995 c 369 s 60; 1986 c 266 s 121; 1985 c 236 s 6.
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Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: Washington State Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain Washington statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.