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Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government Code of Ordinances
CHARTER AND CODE OF ORDINANCES LEXINGTON-FAYETTE URBAN COUNTY GOVERNMENT
SUPPLEMENT HISTORY TABLE
LEXINGTON-FAYETTE - URBAN COUNTY GOVERNMENT CHARTER
Chapter 1 - GENERAL PROVISIONS
Chapter 2 - ADMINISTRATION1
Chapter 2A - AIRPORTS AND AIRCRAFT1
Chapter 2B - CODE ENFORCEMENT ADMINISTRATIVE HEARING BOARDS
Chapter 3 - ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES1
Chapter 4 - ANIMALS AND FOWL1
Chapter 5 - BUILDINGS AND BUILDING REGULATIONS1
Chapter 5A - CIVIL DEFENSE: CIVIL EMERGENCIES
Chapter 6 - EMPLOYEES AND PENSIONS1
Chapter 7 - FINANCE AND TAXATION1
Chapter 8 - MINING AND/OR QUARRYING1
Chapter 9 - FIRE PREVENTION1
Chapter 9A - FIREWORKS
Chapter 10 - FOOD AND DRUGS1
Chapter 11 - HEALTH AND SANITATION1
Chapter 12 - HOUSING1
Chapter 13 - LICENSES AND REGULATIONS1
Chapter 13A - MINIMUM WAGE
Chapter 14 - OFFENSES AND MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS1
Chapter 15 - PEDDLERS AND SOLICITORS1
Chapter 16 - SEWAGE, GARBAGE, REFUSE AND WEEDS1
Chapter 16A - HAZARDOUS MATERIALS1
Chapter 17 - STREETS AND SIDEWALKS1
Chapter 17A - SUBDIVISIONS1
Chapter 17B - STREET TREES1
Chapter 17C - PUBLIC RIGHTS-OF-WAY
Chapter 17D - DOCKLESS VEHICLES
Chapter 18 - TRAFFIC1
Chapter 18B - SNOW EMERGENCIES1
Chapter 18C - EMERGENCY AMBULANCE, TRANSPORTATION AMBULANCE LICENSING, REGULATIONS1
Chapter 19 - WEIGHTS AND MEASURES
Chapter 20 - ZONING1
Chapter 21 - COMPREHENSIVE PLAN FOR CLASSIFIED CIVIL SERVICE SYSTEM1
Chapter 22 - UNCLASSIFIED CIVIL SERVICE1
Chapter 23 - DIVISIONS OF FIRE AND EMERGENCY SERVICES AND POLICE1
Chapter 24 - DETENTION CENTER1
Chapter 25 - ETHICS ACT
Chapter 26 - RURAL LAND MANAGEMENT
APPENDIX A RULES AND PROCEDURES OF THE LEXINGTON-FAYETTE URBAN COUNTY COUNCIL1
CODE COMPARATIVE TABLE - ORDINANCES
STATE LAW REFERENCE TABLE
Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government Zoning Code
Sec. 14-97. - Regulation of smoking indoors—Definitions.
For the purpose of Sections 14-97 to 14-104, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning:
(1)   Building. Any structure whose floor area is enclosed overhead by a roof or other covering of any material, whether permanent or temporary, and has forty (40) percent or more of its perimeter permanently or temporarily enclosed by walls, windows, doors, or other coverings of any material. Any structure whose floor area is enclosed overhead by a roof or other covering of any material, whether permanent or temporary, that has forty (40) percent or more of the perimeter temporarily enclosed by walls, windows, doors or other coverings of any materials shall not be subject to the definition of a building when the temporary walls, windows, doors or other coverings are not in place.
(2)   Dwelling. Any building used primarily for sleeping overnight and conducting activities of daily living, including, without limitation, a single or multi-family residential housing unit, a hotel or motel room or suite or a hospital, hospice or nursing home room.
(3)   Establishment. Any business or other entity operating or otherwise located in a building or portion thereof, and open to public, including but not limited to banks, laundromats, retail stores, professional offices, restaurants, bars, gaming facilities such as bingo halls, pool halls, bowling alleys, child day care facilities, and adult day care facilities, among others.
(a)   Open to the public. Buildings, portions thereof, or establishments therein, are "open to the public" when their physical nature, function, custom, usage, or notice would cause a reasonable person to believe no invitation or permission to enter is required.
(4)   Private organization. An organization which is the owner, lessee, or occupant of a building, that is not open to the public. The building will be used exclusively for the organization's or a member's purposes at all times. The organization must maintain selective members, and be operated by the membership. The organization neither provides food, drink, nor lodging for pay to anyone who is not a member or a member's guest, nor permits others to provide food, drink, or lodging for pay to anyone who is not a member or a member's guest. The organization has been granted an exemption from the payment of federal income tax as a club under 26 U.S.C. § 501.
(5)   Retail tobacco store. A retail store devoted primarily to the sale of any tobacco product, including but not limited to cigarettes, cigars, pipe tobacco and chewing tobacco, and accessories and in which the sale of other products is incidental. The sale of such other products shall be considered incidental if such sales generate less than twenty-five (25) percent of the total annual gross sales.
(6)   Smoke or smoking. The act of inhaling or exhaling from, or the burning, heating or carrying of, any lighted or heated cigarette, cigar, pipe, other combustible tobacco product, or electronic smoking device or any oral smoking device including but not limited to an E-Cigarette or E-Cig.
(7)   Workplace. Any building or portion thereof in which an establishment is located, including, but not limited to, work areas, private offices, lounges, restrooms, conference rooms, meeting rooms, classrooms, cafeterias, and hallways.
(8)   [Electronic Smoking Device.] Electronic Smoking Device means any product containing or delivering nicotine or any other substance intended for human consumption that can be used by a person to simulate smoking through inhalation of aerosol from the product. The term includes any such device, whether manufactured, distributed, marketed, or sold as an e-cigarette, e-cigar, e-pipe, e-hookah, or vapor pen, or under any other product name or descriptor.
(9)   Retail electronic cigarette store. A retail store devoted primarily to the sale of any electronic smoking device, including but not limited to e-cigarettes, e-cigars, e-pipes, e-hookah, or vapor pen, or under any other product name or descriptor and accessories, and in which the sale of other products is incidental. The sale of other such products shall be incidental if the sales generate less than twenty-five (25) percent of the total annual gross sales.
(Ord. No. 171-2003, § 2, 7-1-03; Ord. No. 247-2008, § 2, 11-6-08; Ord. No. 136-2014, § 2, 11-13-14; Ord. No. 54-2015, § 1, 5-7-15 )