File:  GBEC

 

TOBACCO-FREE SCHOOL FOR STAFF AND STUDENTS

 

            Smoking, chewing or any other use of any tobacco products by staff, students, and visitors shall be prohibited on school property as defined in this policy.  For purposes of this policy, the following definitions shall apply:

 

1.         ÒSchool propertyÓ shall mean all property owned, leased, rented or otherwise used by a school including but not limited to the following:

 

            a.         All interior and exterior portions of any building or other structure used for instruction, administration, support services, maintenance or storage.

 

            b.         All vehicles used by the division for transporting students, staff, visitors or other persons.

 

2.         ÒTobaccoÓ shall include cigarettes, cigars, pipe tobacco, snuff, chewing tobacco and

all other kinds and forms of tobacco prepared in such manner as to be suitable for

chewing, smoking or both. ÒTobaccoÓ shall include cloves or any other product

packaged for smoking.

 

3.         ÒSmokingÓ means the carrying or holding of any lighted pipe, cigar, or cigarette of any kind, or any other lighted smoking equipment, or the lighting, inhaling, or exhaling of smoke from a pipe, cigar, or cigarette of any kind. 

 

            This policy shall be published in student and employee handbooks, posted on bulletin boards and announced in meetings and at school events.  Staff and Students found to be in violation of this policy shall be subject to appropriate disciplinary action. 

 

Drug Free School Zone

 

            All Rockingham County Public Schools have been declared tobacco free sites and drug free zones by the Rockingham County School Board.  Use of tobacco products by anyone is prohibited on school property.  Each principal shall post signs stating "No Smoking," or containing the international "No Smoking" symbol, consisting of a pictorial representation of a burning cigarette enclosed in a red circle with a bar across it, clearly and conspicuously in every school cafeteria and other dining facility in the school.

 

Adopted:

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Legal Refs.:     Clean Indoor Air Act 20 U.S.C. sections 6083, 7183 (Federal law prohibits smoking in any indoor facility used to provide educational services to children).

 

                        Code of Virginia, 1950, as amended, ¤¤ 15.2-2820, 5.2-2824, 15.2-2827.

 

Cross Ref.:      JFCH  Tobacco Free School for Students

KGC   Tobacco Use on School Premises

 

 

7/09 RCPS                                ROCKINGHAM COUNTY SCHOOL BOARD