Cal. Rules of Court, rule 10.504 · Division 3. Judicial Administration Rules Applicable to All Courts
Smoking prohibited in all courts
Verbatim from the official edition
Text — As posted by the Judicial Council of California (read October 22, 2026)
(a) Definition
"Court facilities" means courthouses and all areas of multipurpose buildings used for court operations.
(b) Smoking prohibited
Smoking is prohibited in all court facilities.
(c) Signs
Conspicuous no-smoking signs must be placed in all court facilities.
Notes and commentary — not rule text
History
(Subd (b) amended effective January 1, 2007.)
(Subd (c) amended effective January 1, 2007.)
Rule 10.504 amended and renumbered effective January 1, 2007; adopted as rule 989.5 effective July 1, 1991
Source of truth
- Edition
- As posted by the Judicial Council of California (read October 22, 2026)
- Official file
- https://courts.ca.gov/cms/rules/index/ten/rule10_504
- Text hash
- sha256 12baafbd5e9f7994444dd89d41081ac906ec2fe0e6a89c93b1f79abc277a3a72
- Composed by
- compose_crc.py 2026-10-22: the Judicial Council's rule pages read paragraph by paragraph; verify_crc.py's second reading of the Council's per-title PDFs finds every paragraph
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