[Vision2020] Public smoking

[Tom Hansen]

Thanks, Tim.  You found exactly what I was looking for.  I that I just
didn't dig deep enough . . . or in the right location.

Title 39 (Health and Safety), Chapter 55 (Clean Indoor Air) of the Idaho
statutes states . . .

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TITLE 39
HEALTH AND SAFETY

CHAPTER 55
CLEAN INDOOR AIR

39-5503.Prohibitions -- Exceptions. (1) No person shall smoke in a public
place, publicly-owned building or office, or at a public meeting, except
in the following which may contain smoking areas or be designated as
smoking areas in their entirety:

(a)  Bars;

(b)  Retail businesses primarily engaged in the sale of tobacco or tobacco
products;

(c)  Buildings owned and operated by social, fraternal, or religious
organizations when used by the membership of the organization, their
guests or families, or any facility that is rented or leased for private
functions from which the public is excluded and for which arrangements are
under the control of the sponsor of the function;

(d)  Guest rooms in hotels, motels, bed and breakfast lodging facilities,
and other similar lodging facilities, designated by the person or persons
having management authority over such public lodging establishment as
rooms in which smoking may be permitted;

(e)  Theatrical production sites, if smoking is an integral part of the
story in the theatrical production;

(f)  Areas of owner-operated businesses, with no employees other than the
owner-operators, that are not commonly open to the public;

(g)  Any office or business, other than child care facilities, located
within the proprietor’s private home when all such offices and/or
businesses occupy less than fifty percent (50%) of the total area within
the private home;

(h)  Idaho state veterans homes, established pursuant to section 66-901,
Idaho Code, that permit smoking in designated areas, provided that
physical barriers and ventilation systems are used to reduce smoke in
adjacent nonsmoking areas; and

(i)  A designated employee breakroom established by a small business owner
employing five (5) or fewer employees, provided that all of the following
conditions are met:

    (i)   The breakroom is not accessible to minors;

    (ii)  The breakroom is separated from other parts of the building by a
floor to ceiling partition;

    (iii) The breakroom is not the sole means of entrance or exit to the
establishment or its restrooms and is located in an area where no
employee is required to enter as part of the employee’s work
responsibilities. For purposes of this paragraph, the term "work
responsibilities" does not include custodial or maintenance work
performed in a breakroom when it is unoccupied; and

    (iv)  "Warning: Smoking Permitted" signs are prominently posted in the
smoking breakroom and properly maintained by the employer. The letters
on such signs shall be at least one (1) inch in height.

(2)  This section shall not be construed to require employers to provide
reasonable accommodation to smokers, or to provide breakrooms for smokers
or nonsmokers.

(3)  Nothing in this section shall prohibit an employer from prohibiting
smoking in an enclosed place of employment.

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Things that make you go, "Hmmm."

Seeya round town, Moscow.

Tom Hansen
Moscow, Idaho

"The Pessimist complains about the wind, the Optimist expects it to change
and the Realist adjusts his sails."

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