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1 | | January 31st an affidavit stating the percentage of its |
2 | | gross income during the prior calendar year that was |
3 | | derived from the sale of loose tobacco, plants, or herbs |
4 | | and cigars, cigarettes, pipes, or other smoking devices for |
5 | | smoking tobacco and related smoking accessories. Any |
6 | | retail tobacco store that begins operation after the |
7 | | effective date of this amendatory Act may only qualify for |
8 | | an exemption if located in a freestanding structure |
9 | | occupied solely by the business and smoke from the business |
10 | | does not migrate into an enclosed area where smoking is |
11 | | prohibited. |
12 | | (3) (Blank). |
13 | | (4) Hotel and motel sleeping rooms that are rented to |
14 | | guests and are designated as smoking rooms, provided that |
15 | | all smoking rooms on the same floor must be contiguous and |
16 | | smoke from these rooms must not infiltrate into nonsmoking |
17 | | rooms or other areas where smoking is prohibited. Not more |
18 | | than 25% of the rooms rented to guests in a hotel or motel |
19 | | may be designated as rooms where smoking is allowed. The |
20 | | status of rooms as smoking or nonsmoking may not be |
21 | | changed, except to permanently add additional nonsmoking |
22 | | rooms. |
23 | | (5) Enclosed laboratories that are excluded from the |
24 | | definition of "place of employment" in Section 10 of this |
25 | | Act. Rulemaking authority to implement this amendatory Act |
26 | | of the 95th General Assembly, if any, is conditioned on the |
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1 | | rules being adopted in accordance with all provisions of |
2 | | the Illinois Administrative Procedure Act and all rules and |
3 | | procedures of the Joint Committee on Administrative Rules; |
4 | | any purported rule not so adopted, for whatever reason, is |
5 | | unauthorized. |
6 | | (6) Common smoking rooms in long-term care facilities
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7 | | operated under the authority of the Illinois Department of
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8 | | Veterans' Affairs or licensed under the Nursing Home Care |
9 | | Act that are accessible only to residents who
are smokers |
10 | | and have requested in writing to have access to
the common |
11 | | smoking room where smoking is permitted and the
smoke shall |
12 | | not infiltrate other areas of the long-term care facility. |
13 | | Rulemaking authority to implement this amendatory Act of |
14 | | the 95th General Assembly, if any, is conditioned on the |
15 | | rules being adopted in accordance with all provisions of |
16 | | the Illinois Administrative Procedure Act and all rules and |
17 | | procedures of the Joint Committee on Administrative Rules; |
18 | | any purported rule not so adopted, for whatever reason, is |
19 | | unauthorized. |
20 | | (7) Gaming facilities licensed under the Riverboat |
21 | | Gambling Act, if smoking is not banned in gaming facilities |
22 | | located in the nearest neighboring state. This exemption |
23 | | shall no longer apply to a gaming facility on and after the |
24 | | date that smoking is banned in gaming facilities located in |
25 | | the nearest neighboring state. |
26 | | (Source: P.A. 95-17, eff. 1-1-08; 95-1029, eff. 2-4-09; |