Workplace Smoking Rules in Nevada

Employers covered. Employers with one or more employees.

Written policy requirements. Employer policy not specified.

Posting requirements. Signs must be posted in nonsmoking areas and separate areas for smoking may be designated.

No smoking areas. In Nevada, smoking is prohibited, except where designated, in public places including elevators, public buildings (those owned and used by the University of Nevada system or by state or local governments), waiting rooms, hallways of health care facilities; offices of health care providers; hotels and restaurants when designated by the owner; grocery stores; child care facilities; buses used by the general public; and school buses. Signs must be posted in nonsmoking areas and separate areas for smoking may be designated. Cigarette vending machines may not be placed in public areas if minors are permitted access to the areas. Restaurants with seating capacities of 50 or more must maintain a flexible nonsmoking area in the facility and offer each patron the choice of sitting in the smoking or nonsmoking area. However, a business that derives more than 50 percent of its gross receipts from the sale of alcoholic beverages or from gaming operations may be designated as a smoking area in its entirety.

Designated smoking areas. If a child care facility designates a smoking area, children may not be allowed in the designated smoking area and the area must be sufficiently separate or ventilated so that there are no irritating or toxic effects of smoke in the other areas of the facility.

Permitted smoking areas. Smoking is permitted in designated smoking areas in public waiting rooms, lobbies or hallways of medical facilities, doctors' offices, hotel or motels, food stores or chartered buses and in licensed gaming establishments.