95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2007 and 2008
SB2432

 

Introduced 2/15/2008, by Sen. John J. Cullerton

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
410 ILCS 82/10
410 ILCS 82/52 new

    Amends the Smoke Free Illinois Act. Creates a definition of a "nuisance" under the Act, meaning anything that is injurious to health, indecent, offensive to the senses, or an obstruction to the free use of property, so as to interfere with the comfortable enjoyment of life or property. Provides that for the purposes of the Act, "nuisance" includes tobacco smoke that drifts into any residential unit a person rents, leases, or owns, from another residential or commercial unit, and this smoke: (i) drifts in more than once in each of 2 or more consecutive 7-day periods and (ii) creates a condition that is injurious to health, indecent, offensive to the senses, or an obstruction to the free use of property, so as to interfere with the comfortable enjoyment of life or property. Provides that an action for a nuisance may be brought by any person whose property is injuriously affected, or whose personal enjoyment is lessened by the nuisance. Provides that upon judgment, the nuisance may be enjoined or abated, and damages may be recovered. Provides that a cause of action for a nuisance shall not be brought under the Section in certain circumstances. Makes other changes. Effective January 1, 2009.


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A BILL FOR

 

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1     AN ACT concerning public health.
 
2     Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
 
4     Section 5. The Smoke Free Illinois Act is amended by
5 changing Section 10 and by adding Section 52 as follows:
 
6     (410 ILCS 82/10)
7     Sec. 10. Definitions. In this Act:
8     "Bar" means an establishment that is devoted to the serving
9 of alcoholic beverages for consumption by guests on the
10 premises and that derives no more than 10% of its gross revenue
11 from the sale of food consumed on the premises. "Bar" includes,
12 but is not limited to, taverns, nightclubs, cocktail lounges,
13 adult entertainment facilities, and cabarets.
14     "Department" means the Department of Public Health.
15     "Employee" means a person who is employed by an employer in
16 consideration for direct or indirect monetary wages or profits
17 or a person who volunteers his or her services for a non-profit
18 entity.
19     "Employer" means a person, business, partnership,
20 association, or corporation, including a municipal
21 corporation, trust, or non-profit entity, that employs the
22 services of one or more individual persons.
23     "Enclosed area" means all space between a floor and a

 

 

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1 ceiling that is enclosed or partially enclosed with (i) solid
2 walls or windows, exclusive of doorways, or (ii) solid walls
3 with partitions and no windows, exclusive of doorways, that
4 extend from the floor to the ceiling, including, without
5 limitation, lobbies and corridors.
6     "Enclosed or partially enclosed sports arena" means any
7 sports pavilion, stadium, gymnasium, health spa, boxing arena,
8 swimming pool, roller rink, ice rink, bowling alley, or other
9 similar place where members of the general public assemble to
10 engage in physical exercise or participate in athletic
11 competitions or recreational activities or to witness sports,
12 cultural, recreational, or other events.
13     "Gaming equipment or supplies" means gaming
14 equipment/supplies as defined in the Illinois Gaming Board
15 Rules of the Illinois Administrative Code.
16     "Gaming facility" means an establishment utilized
17 primarily for the purposes of gaming and where gaming equipment
18 or supplies are operated for the purposes of accruing business
19 revenue.
20     "Healthcare facility" means an office or institution
21 providing care or treatment of diseases, whether physical,
22 mental, or emotional, or other medical, physiological, or
23 psychological conditions, including, but not limited to,
24 hospitals, rehabilitation hospitals, weight control clinics,
25 nursing homes, homes for the aging or chronically ill,
26 laboratories, and offices of surgeons, chiropractors, physical

 

 

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1 therapists, physicians, dentists, and all specialists within
2 these professions. "Healthcare facility" includes all waiting
3 rooms, hallways, private rooms, semiprivate rooms, and wards
4 within healthcare facilities.
5     "Nuisance" means anything that is injurious to health,
6 indecent, offensive to the senses, or an obstruction to the
7 free use of property, so as to interfere with the comfortable
8 enjoyment of life or property. For the purposes of this Act,
9 "nuisance" includes tobacco smoke that drifts into any
10 residential unit a person rents, leases, or owns, from another
11 residential or commercial unit, and this smoke: (i) drifts in
12 more than once in each of 2 or more consecutive 7-day periods
13 and (ii) creates a condition that is injurious to health,
14 indecent, offensive to the senses, or an obstruction to the
15 free use of property, so as to interfere with the comfortable
16 enjoyment of life or property.
17     "Place of employment" means any area under the control of a
18 public or private employer that employees are required to
19 enter, leave, or pass through during the course of employment,
20 including, but not limited to entrances and exits to places of
21 employment, including a minimum distance, as set forth in
22 Section 70 of this Act, of 15 feet from entrances, exits,
23 windows that open, and ventilation intakes that serve an
24 enclosed area where smoking is prohibited; offices and work
25 areas; restrooms; conference and classrooms; break rooms and
26 cafeterias; and other common areas. A private residence or

 

 

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1 home-based business, unless used to provide licensed child
2 care, foster care, adult care, or other similar social service
3 care on the premises, is not a "place of employment".
4     "Private club" means a not-for-profit association that (1)
5 has been in active and continuous existence for at least 3
6 years prior to the effective date of this amendatory Act of the
7 95th General Assembly, whether incorporated or not, (2) is the
8 owner, lessee, or occupant of a building or portion thereof
9 used exclusively for club purposes at all times, (3) is
10 operated solely for a recreational, fraternal, social,
11 patriotic, political, benevolent, or athletic purpose, but not
12 for pecuniary gain, and (4) only sells alcoholic beverages
13 incidental to its operation. For purposes of this definition,
14 "private club" means an organization that is managed by a board
15 of directors, executive committee, or similar body chosen by
16 the members at an annual meeting, has established bylaws, a
17 constitution, or both to govern its activities, and has been
18 granted an exemption from the payment of federal income tax as
19 a club under 26 U.S.C. 501.
20     "Private residence" means the part of a structure used as a
21 dwelling, including, without limitation: a private home,
22 townhouse, condominium, apartment, mobile home, vacation home,
23 cabin, or cottage. For the purposes of this definition, a
24 hotel, motel, inn, resort, lodge, bed and breakfast or other
25 similar public accommodation, hospital, nursing home, or
26 assisted living facility shall not be considered a private

 

 

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1 residence.
2     "Public place" means that portion of any building or
3 vehicle used by and open to the public, regardless of whether
4 the building or vehicle is owned in whole or in part by private
5 persons or entities, the State of Illinois, or any other public
6 entity and regardless of whether a fee is charged for
7 admission, including a minimum distance, as set forth in
8 Section 70 of this Act, of 15 feet from entrances, exits,
9 windows that open, and ventilation intakes that serve an
10 enclosed area where smoking is prohibited. A "public place"
11 does not include a private residence unless the private
12 residence is used to provide licensed child care, foster care,
13 or other similar social service care on the premises. A "public
14 place" includes, but is not limited to, hospitals, restaurants,
15 retail stores, offices, commercial establishments, elevators,
16 indoor theaters, libraries, museums, concert halls, public
17 conveyances, educational facilities, nursing homes,
18 auditoriums, enclosed or partially enclosed sports arenas,
19 meeting rooms, schools, exhibition halls, convention
20 facilities, polling places, private clubs, gaming facilities,
21 all government owned vehicles and facilities, including
22 buildings and vehicles owned, leased, or operated by the State
23 or State subcontract, healthcare facilities or clinics,
24 enclosed shopping centers, retail service establishments,
25 financial institutions, educational facilities, ticket areas,
26 public hearing facilities, public restrooms, waiting areas,

 

 

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1 lobbies, bars, taverns, bowling alleys, skating rinks,
2 reception areas, and no less than 75% of the sleeping quarters
3 within a hotel, motel, resort, inn, lodge, bed and breakfast,
4 or other similar public accommodation that are rented to
5 guests, but excludes private residences.
6     "Restaurant" means (i) an eating establishment, including,
7 but not limited to, coffee shops, cafeterias, sandwich stands,
8 and private and public school cafeterias, that gives or offers
9 for sale food to the public, guests, or employees, and (ii) a
10 kitchen or catering facility in which food is prepared on the
11 premises for serving elsewhere. "Restaurant" includes a bar
12 area within the restaurant.
13     "Retail tobacco store" means a retail establishment that
14 derives more than 80% of its gross revenue from the sale of
15 loose tobacco, plants, or herbs and cigars, cigarettes, pipes,
16 and other smoking devices for burning tobacco and related
17 smoking accessories and in which the sale of other products is
18 merely incidental. "Retail tobacco store" does not include a
19 tobacco department or section of a larger commercial
20 establishment or any establishment with any type of liquor,
21 food, or restaurant license.
22     "Smoke" or "smoking" means the carrying, smoking, burning,
23 inhaling, or exhaling of any kind of lighted pipe, cigar,
24 cigarette, hookah, weed, herbs, or any other lighted smoking
25 equipment.
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1 subsection (a) of Section 3 of the Illinois Purchasing Act (now
2 repealed).
3     "Unit of local government" has the meaning ascribed to it
4 in Section 1 of Article VII of the Illinois Constitution of
5 1970.
6 (Source: P.A. 95-17, eff. 1-1-08.)
 
7     (410 ILCS 82/52 new)
8     Sec. 52. Nuisance.
9     (a) An action for a nuisance may be brought by any person
10 whose property is injuriously affected, or whose personal
11 enjoyment is lessened by the nuisance. Upon judgment, the
12 nuisance may be enjoined or abated, and damages may be
13 recovered. A cause of action for a nuisance shall not be
14 brought under this Section if the rental, lease, restrictive
15 covenant, or purchase agreement for the unit states in writing
16 that:
17         (1) smoking is allowed in other units, either
18     residential or commercial, and that tobacco smoke from
19     those units may drift into the unit that is subject of the
20     agreement; and
21         (2) the renter, lessee, or buyer acknowledges he has
22     been informed that tobacco smoke may drift into the unit
23     that he or she is renting, leasing, or purchasing, and he
24     or she waives any right to a cause of action for nuisance
25     under this Section.

 

 

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1     (b) A cause of action for a nuisance under this Section may
2 be brought against:
3         (1) the individual generating the tobacco smoke;
4         (2) the renter or lessee who permits or fails to
5     control the generation of tobacco smoke in violation of the
6     terms of his or her rental or lease agreement on the
7     premises he or she rents or leases; or
8         (3) the landlord, but only if:
9             (i) the terms of the renter's or lessee's contract
10         provide that the unit will not be subject to the
11         nuisance of drifting tobacco smoke;
12             (ii) the complaining renter or lessee has provided
13         to the landlord a statement in writing indicating that
14         tobacco smoke is creating a nuisance in the renter's or
15         lessee's unit; and
16             (iii) the landlord knowingly allows the
17         continuation of a nuisance after receipt of written
18         notice under this Section and in violation of the terms
19         of the rental or lease agreement.
20     (c) This Section does not apply to residential rental units
21 available for temporary rental, such as for vacations, or
22 available for only 30 or fewer days at a time, hotel or motel
23 rooms, or a timeshare interest.
 
24     Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect January
25 1, 2009.