But it demonstrates our determination to make sure employers are complying with the smoking ban. Proprietor Timothy Delaney ignored five warnings by health department officials that he was in violation of state law restricting smoking in the workplace, according to the suit. Delaney was cited by the department for violating the law in 1998. The warnings and citation went unheeded. The suit charges Delaney and his landlords with causing and maintaining a public nuisance and engaging in unfair business practices as a result of the failure to follow the no smoking law.
Bars are no exception.
The vast majority of bar owners in San Francisco have followed the law, but those who have not are creating a public nuisance and engaging in unfair and illegal business practices, and we will take action against them. The Smoke-Free Workplace Law, intended to protect employees from the dangers of secondhand smoke, took effect in 1995. Bars were phased into the law in 1998.