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An Ordinance amending Section 14-98(1)(d) of the Code of Ordinances related to smoking indoors to prohibit smoking electronic smoking devices in a retail tobacco store; amending Section 14-98(1)(g) of the Code of Ordinances related to smoking indoors to prohibit smoking of tobacco products in a retail electronic cigarette store. [Council Office, Maynard]
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NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE LEXINGTON-FAYETTE URBAN COUNTY GOVERNMENT:
Section 1 - That Section 14-98 of the Code of Ordinances of the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government be and hereby is amended to read as follows:
Sec. 14-98. Same-Prohibition; exceptions.
(1)
No person shall smoke within any building or any establishment therein, that is open to the public, or any workplace. No person shall smoke within any public transportation vehicle, including buses and taxicabs, nor within any ticket, boarding and waiting area of public transportation buildings enclosed overhead by a roof. The prohibition does not apply to the following locations, provided that smoke does not infiltrate into areas where smoking is prohibited under the provisions of sections 14-97 to 14-104
(a)
Any dwelling. This exception also extends to a business located in the dwelling and owned or leased by the occupant living in the dwelling; provided, however, that the business is not operating as a child care, adult day care, or health care facility. This exception does not extend to a lobby, common elevator, common hallway, or any other common area of a building containing attached dwelling units or hotel or motel rooms. If a hospital, hospice, or nursing home permits smoking in its dwelling rooms, smoking is not allowed in any room shared with another person without that person's consent.
(b)
A rental room or hall being used by a person or group for a private social function that is not open to the public.
(c)
Any room used for psychological treatment of nicotine addicti...
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