Smoking Policy

References: A. Renfrew County and District Health Unit Smoke and Vapour Free Policy
B. Smoke Free Ontario Act, Ontario Regulation 168/18

In accordance with the above references sports fields, parking lots (including inside your vehicle), spectator areas and play ground are smoke-free areas. This further includes public areas that are within 20m of any of the aforementioned perimeters.

The following is prohibited and included within the Smoke Free Ontario Act:

1. smoke or hold lighted tobacco;
2. smoke or hold lighted cannabis;
3. use an electronic cigarette; and
4. consume or use a prescribed product or substance, in a prescribed manner.

If you are found in contravention of the above, you will be asked to leave the property immediately and not allowed to return for the entirety of the season. Please be aware, that depending on your child's age group, this could put your child's participation in soccer at jeopardy, especially if there is no other guardian to attend your child's soccer events.

If you are found in repeated contraventions, your membership with PMSC will be revoked completely, meaning you and your family will no longer be members of the PMSC and unable to participate in any of our programs.

Outlined above are simply the consequences from the PMSC, this does not preclude any municipality/provincial involvement/enforcement.