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Smoking in and around courthouse facilities: no one may smoke any substance, including tobacco and cannabis products and electronic cigarettes, inside courthouse facilities or within 20 feet of an exit, entrance or operable window. In effect for 2026.
California > Fourth Appellate District > San Diego County > Superior Court of California, County of San Diego
[File stamp: FILED, Clerk of the Superior Court, DEC 31 2025, By: G. Arce-Barraza, Deputy] THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF SAN DIEGO IN RE SMOKING IN AND AROUND COURTHOUSE FACILITIES GENERAL ORDER OF THE PRESIDING DEPARTMENT ORDER NO. 010126-18 THIS COURT FINDS AS FOLLOWS: This order prohibits the smoking of any product or substance within any of the courthouse facilities of the Superior Court of California, County of San Diego (“San Diego Superior Court,” “court,” or “courthouse”), and is necessary to protect and promote the health, safety, and security of all occupants of the courthouse facilities. IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that no public employee or member of the public is permitted to smoke any substance, including but not limited to tobacco, tobacco products, cannabis, and cannabis products, within any of the courthouse facilities, including but not limited to courtrooms, lobby areas, hallways, stairs, elevators, escalators, and business offices. This smoking ban also applies to outdoor areas that are within 20 feet of an exit, entrance, or operable window of courthouse facilities. The smoking of cannabis and cannabis products is prohibited in all public places under Health and Safety Code section 11362.3(a). The term “cannabis,” as defined in Health and Safety Code section 11018, means “all parts of the plant Cannabis sativa L., whether growing or not; the seeds thereof; the resin extracted from any part of the plant; and every compound, manufacture, salt, derivative, mixture, or preparation of the plant, its seeds or resin.” The term “cannabis products,” as defined in Health and Safety Code section 11018.1, means "cannabis that has undergone a process whereby the plant material has been transformed into a concentrate, including, but not limited to, concentrated cannabis, or an edible or topical product containing marijuana or concentrated cannabis and other ingredients.” The term “smoke,” as defined in Health and Safety Code section 11362.3, means “to inhale, exhale, burn, or carry any lighted or heated device or pipe, or any other lighted or heated cannabis or cannabis product intended for inhalation, whether natural or synthetic, in any manner or in any form,” including “the use of an electronic smoking device that creates an aerosol or vapor, in any manner or in any form, or the use of any oral smoking device for the purpose of circumventing the prohibition of smoking in a place.” This includes electronic cigarettes. The San Diego County Sheriff’s Department, as the designated Court Security Officer, is authorized to enforce this order. This order shall become effective on January 1, 2026, and expire on December 31, 2026, unless otherwise ordered by this court. Service of this order shall be made on the San Diego County Sheriff’s Department. IT IS SO ORDERED. DATED: December 31, 2025 [signature] HONORABLE MAUREEN F. HALLAHAN PRESIDING JUDGE
[File stamp: FILED, Clerk of the Superior Court, DEC 31 2025, By: G. Arce-Barraza, Deputy] THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF SAN DIEGO IN RE SMOKING IN AND AROUND COURTHOUSE FACILITIES GENERAL ORDER OF THE PRESIDING DEPARTMENT ORDER NO. 010126-18 THIS COURT FINDS AS FOLLOWS: This order prohibits the smoking of any product or substance within any of the courthouse facilities o
Reviewer note: Composed 2026-09-28 (California T3 San Diego build) from BenchPath custody ca/t3/ca-san-diego/go/general_order_010126-18.pdf (142315 bytes, sha256 8d6a5b9da35ddfde73b365d7f0515c88719573bbd67af79dbdde6736242c22d7; 3 pages) - the court's own posted PDF, a scan with no usable text layer: transcribed from the rendered page images, every page read against the image; a machine reading (RapidOCR) was used only as a second reader for a word-level diff; every quotation mark, apostrophe, dash and section sign checked in full-resolution crops; pleading line numbers and “///” fill marks omitted; the file stamp and signature bracketed. Printed irregularities are kept as printed.
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