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(a) public transportation facility is used as defined in 24 RCNY Health Code § 139.01,
(b) commercial premises is used as defined in 24 RCNY Health Code § 135.01,
(c) food establishment is used as defined in 24 RCNY Health Code § 81.03,
(d) day care service, school and children's institutions are used as defined in 24 RCNY Health Code § 45.01, and
(e) hotel, rooming house and lodging house are used as defined in Multiple Dwelling Law § 4.
No person who owns or is in charge of commercial premises, an office or other business establishment, day care service, school, children's institution, hotel, rooming house, lodging house, public wash room, public lavatory, public transportation facility or any other public place or any place used in common by the public shall furnish or maintain or permit the furnishing or maintenance of a common towel for the use of more than one person.
The use or furnishing for use of common eating or drinking utensils is prohibited in commercial premises, a public transportation facility, food establishment, hotel, rooming house, lodging house, day care service, school, children's institution, park, street or any other public place or any place used in common by the public.
(a) No person engaged in the preparation, manufacture, sorting or handling of cigars, cigarettes or tobacco intended for sale shall at any time:
(1) Touch such cigar, cigarette or tobacco with his lips, teeth or tongue; or,
(2) Moisten such cigar, cigarette or tobacco with saliva, directly or indirectly, by spitting or by use of the fingers or utensils or accessories of any kind; or,
(3) Spray or moisten such cigar, cigarette or tobacco with water or any other liquid emitted from the mouth; or,
(4) Permit such cigar, cigarette or tobacco to touch or be introduced into the nose of any person.
(b) A person engaged in the preparation, manufacture, sorting or handling of cigars, cigarettes or tobacco intended for sale shall thoroughly wash his hands with soap and warm water before beginning work, immediately after each visit to the toilet, and at all other times when necessary during the course of the work.
(c) A copy of this section shall be posted conspicuously in every place where cigars, cigarettes or tobacco are prepared, manufactured, sorted or handled.
(a) It shall be unlawful for any person to smoke or carry a lighted cigar, cigarette or pipe in any elevator or in any retail food establishment commonly known as a supermarket.
(b) It shall be unlawful for any person to smoke or carry a lighted cigar, cigarette or pipe in any classroom or in any lecture hall, except that the owner or person in charge of such classroom or lecture hall may designate a special area or areas where smoking is permitted, unless otherwise prohibited by the Fire Department or by other law. The area or areas where smoking is permitted shall contain not more than 20% of the total seats of the classroom or lecture hall.
(c) It shall be unlawful, except as provided in subsection (e), for any person to smoke or carry a lighted cigar, cigarette or pipe in any theatre, motion picture theatre, opera house, concert hall, hospital, sanatorium, nursing home, convalescent home, home for the aged or chronically ill patients, museum or library.
(d) It shall be unlawful, except as provided in subsection (e), to smoke or carry a lighted cigar, cigarette or pipe in any enclosed public space in which 50 or more persons gather for religious, recreational, political or social purpose. This subsection shall not apply to:
(1) Any place in which social functions such as weddings, parties, testimonial dinners and similar functions are held and in which the seating arrangements are under the control of the sponsor of the function and not of the owner or person in charge of such place.
(2) Any establishment which sells admission tickets on a seasonal or other periodic basis.
(e) The owner or person in charge of any building, structure or place specified in subsections (c) and (d) may designate special areas therein where smoking is permitted unless otherwise prohibited by the Fire Department or by other law.
(f) Signs prohibiting or permitting smoking, as the case may be, shall be posted conspicuously by the owner or person in charge of each building, structure or place specified in subsections (a), (b), (c) and (d).
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