Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, smoking is allowed in the following areas:
(A) Private residences or dwelling places, except when used as a child care, adult day care or healthcare facility or any other home-based business open to the public.
(B) Retail tobacco stores in operation prior to January 1, 2008. The retail tobacco store shall annually file with the IDPH by January 31 an affidavit stating the percentage of its gross income during the prior calendar year that was derived from the sale of loose tobacco, plants or herbs and cigars, cigarettes, pipes or other smoking devices for smoking tobacco and related smoking accessories. Any retail tobacco store that begins operation after January 1, 2008 may only qualify for an exemption if located in a freestanding structure occupied solely by the business and smoke from the business does not migrate into an enclosed area where smoking is prohibited.
(C) Private and semi-private rooms in nursing homes and long-term care facilities that are occupied by one or more persons, all of whom are smokers and have requested in writing to be placed or to remain in a room where smoking is permitted and the smoke shall not infiltrate other areas of the nursing home. In exercising this exemption, the nursing home or long-term care facility shall ensure that any rooms designated for smoking also comply with the statutes, ordinances and administrative rules under which the home or facility is licensed and the fire protection and life safety codes incorporated by reference therein. Nothing in this section shall require a nursing home or long-term care facility that is smoke free to designate a smoking area within the facility.
(D) Hotel and motel sleeping rooms that are rented to guests and are designated as smoking rooms, provided that all smoking rooms on the same floor must be contiguous and smoke from these rooms must not infiltrate into nonsmoking rooms or other areas where smoking is prohibited. Not more than 25% of the rooms rented to guests in a hotel or motel may be designated as rooms where smoking is allowed. The status of rooms as smoking or nonsmoking may not be changed, except to permanently add additional nonsmoking rooms.
(Ord. 2429, passed 12-3-07) Penalty, see § 138.99