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The Seimas has banned smoking on balconies, terraces, and loggias of apartment buildings owned by individual owners when at least one resident of the house objects to smoking.
In accordance with the modifications adopted, the procedure for the implementation of this provision shall be established by the Government or an institution authorized by it. The manager of the common use objects of the apartment building, the association of the apartment building or the municipal executive body will be responsible for the installation of informative posters on the prohibition of smoking on the balconies, terraces and loggias of the apartment building.
The new provisions also decide to ban smoking at covered public transport stops (pavilions), playgrounds and places where catering is provided to serve customers outdoors (outdoor tables, gazebos, other outdoor facilities), to Except for smoking areas.
The amendments will also ban smoking during outdoor sports competitions or other outdoor events, except in smoking areas.
The law stipulates that the owner of a building (apartment) or another natural person who uses the building (apartment) and smokes in it must ensure that tobacco smoke does not enter the premises of another owner’s building (apartment) and into the facilities of the same apartment.
At the request of the official with the right to conduct an investigation of administrative infringement, the owner of the apartment or premises or the holder of other property rights shall provide this official with the name (name and address of the person who smoked on the balcony, terrace, lodge). The owner of the apartment or premises or the holder of other property rights, who has not indicated the data of the person who smoked on the balcony, terrace, loggia of the apartment or premises, will respond in accordance with the Code of Administrative Offenses.
69 members of the Seimas voted in favor of these new provisions of the legal act, 4 against and 7 abstentions.
