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EMPLOYEE TOBACCO USE

The Assumption Parish School Board shall provide a smoke-free/tobacco-free environment. Smoking, carrying a lighted cigar or cigarette, pipe or any other form of smoking object or device, including but not limited to e-cigs, e-cigarettes, electronic cigarettes, advanced personal vaporizers, vape pens, or vape mods, or possessing any lighted tobacco product or any other lighted combustible plant material, or chewing or otherwise consuming any tobacco or tobacco products shall be prohibited in any elementary or secondary school building, school bus or vehicle used for the provision of academic and extracurricular programs and administration, or any Assumption Parish School Board building or facility, or on the campus of any elementary or secondary school property or any other School Board property.  However, this prohibition shall not be applicable to any tobacco product approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration for sale as a tobacco cessation product and which is marketed and sold solely for such purpose.

School Board property shall include any school grounds or buildings, facilities, portable buildings, field houses, stadiums, equipment storage areas, vacant land, or any property owned, operated, or leased by the School Board where any form of School Board business is or may be conducted.

Violations of this policy may result in disciplinary action up to and including dismissal.

Revised:  November 15, 2006

Revised:  December 6, 2017

Ref:    20 USC 6083 (Nonsmoking Policy for Children's Services)

La. Rev. Stat. Ann. §§17:240, 40:1291.1, 40:1291.2, 40:1291.3, 40:1291.11, 40:1291.21

Board minutes, 11-15-06, 12-6-17

Assumption Parish School Board