23-2022 - Park Smoking Ban Legislation

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products is incidental. "Retail tobacco store" does not include a tobacco department of a larger retail store such as a department or discount store. (p) "Service line" means an indoor line at which one or more persons are waiting for or receiving service of any kind, whether or not such services involve the exchange of money. (q) "Sign" means legible, English lettering on a contrasting background to clearly indicate where smoking is or is not permitted and to provide related information. The international "No Smoking' symbol (consisting of a pictorial representation of a burning cigarette enclosed in a red circle with a red bar across it) may be used in, or substituted for, a sign indicating that smoking is prohibited. A sign shall be of sufficient size to be clearly legible to a person of normal vision throughout the area it is intended to mark. (r) "Smoking material" means a cigar, cigarette, pipe, weed, plant or other smoking equipment in any form. (s) "Work area" means a room, desk, station or other area normally occupied by an employee while carrying out his or her primary work functions. shall be and is hereby amended to read as follows: 523.01 DEFINITIONS. As used in this chapter (a) "Bar" means any establishment licensed by the Ohio Department of Liquor Control to sell intoxicating beverages for consumption on the premises and in which the service of food is only incidental to the consumption of such beverages. An establishment which would usually be defined as an "eating establishment" under subsection (b) hereof may, during certain periods (not including regular meal times) when the service of food is only incidental to the consumption of intoxicating beverages, be defined temporarily as a ..'bar." (b) "Eating establishment" means any restaurant, coffee shop, cafeteria, luncheonette, tavern, cocktail lounge, sandwich stand, soda fountain or any other establishment (excluding bars) where cooked or otherwise prepared food is sold to members of the general public for consumption on the premises. (c) "Employee" means any person who is employed by any employer in consideration for direct or indirect monetary wages or profit or as a volunteer. (d) "Employer" means any person who employs the services of an individual person or any person in charge of a place of employment. Such term excludes building owners and managers in areas leased, rented or otherwise controlled by tenants. (e) "Enclosed indoor area" means an area closed in by a roof and walls on at least three sides with appropriate openings for ingress and egress.