Title
To enact the ordinance proposed by Initiative Petition entitled "Ordinance amending Columbus City Code chapter 715.03 to exempt certain businesses which serve intoxicating beverages from the City of Columbus Smokefree Indoor Air Act of 2004"
Body
Be it ordained by the people of the city of Columbus:
Section 1. That Section 715.03 of the Columbus City Code, entitled "Areas where smoking is not regulated by this Chapter", reads as follows:
"Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter to the contrary, the following areas shall be exempt from the prohibitions in Section 715.02:
(A) Private residences, except if used as a licensed child care, adult day care, or health care facility, or if a person uses a private residence in any way otherwise qualifying that private residence as a place of employment; provided, however, that private residences are exempt from this chapter to the extent that the person providing services is providing housecleaning, home maintenance, cable or telephone repair or personal care services in the private residence.
(B) Hotel and motel rooms that are rented to guests and are designated as smoking rooms; provided, however, that not more than twenty (20) percent of rooms rented to guests in a hotel or motel may be so designated.
(C) Family-owned and operated businesses in which all employees are related to the owner, and offices of self-employed persons in which all employees are related to the self-employed person, but only if the enclosed areas these businesses and offices occupy are not open to the public, are not in the same building with other enclosed areas subject to this regulation, and smoke from these businesses and offices does not infiltrate into enclosed areas where smoking is prohibited under the provisions of this chapter.
(D) Any home, as defined in Section 3721.10 (A) of the Ohio Revised Code, but only to the extent necessary to comply with R.C. 3721.13(A) (18) and rules promulgated a...
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