N.Y. Comp. Codes R. & Regs. Tit. 18 § 441.23 - Tobacco product and non-prescribed or non-approved inhaling device use prohibition
(a) Use of
tobacco products by staff or residents or visitors on the facility grounds is
prohibited.
(b) Tobacco products in
the possession of a resident of such a facility are contraband and must be
confiscated by agency staff.
(c)
For the purposes of this section:
(1)
Use of tobacco products means the lighting, chewing, ingestion
or smoking of any tobacco product.
(2)
Tobacco products include
but are not limited to cigarettes, cigars, pipe tobacco, chewing or dipping
tobacco.
(3)
Facility
grounds means any building, structure, and surrounding grounds
contained within a facility's legally defined property boundaries as registered
in a county clerk's office and any vehicle used to transport residents of an
institution, group residence, group home or agency operated boarding
home.
(d) Use of
inhaling devices that are otherwise not prescribed or approved by a medical
professional are prohibited for all staff, residents and visitors on the
facility grounds of an institution, group residence, group home or agency
operated boarding home, as defined in section
441.2 of
this Part.
(e) Unauthorized
inhaling devices, as described in subdivision (d) of this section in the
possession of a resident of such facility is contraband and must be confiscated
by agency staff.
Notes
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