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1    AN ACT concerning health.
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
 
4    Section 5. The Smoke Free Illinois Act is amended by
5changing Section 35 as follows:
 
6    (410 ILCS 82/35)
7    Sec. 35. Exemptions. Notwithstanding any other provision
8of this Act, smoking is allowed in the following areas:
9        (1) Private residences or dwelling places, except when
10    used as a child care, adult day care, or healthcare
11    facility or any other home-based business open to the
12    public.
13        (2) Retail tobacco stores as defined in Section 10 of
14    this Act in operation prior to the effective date of this
15    amendatory Act of the 95th General Assembly. The retail
16    tobacco store shall annually file with the Department by
17    January 31st an affidavit stating the percentage of its
18    gross income during the prior calendar year that was
19    derived from the sale of loose tobacco, plants, or herbs
20    and cigars, cigarettes, pipes, or other smoking devices for
21    smoking tobacco and related smoking accessories. Any
22    retail tobacco store that begins operation after the
23    effective date of this amendatory Act may only qualify for

 

 

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1    an exemption if located in a freestanding structure
2    occupied solely by the business and smoke from the business
3    does not migrate into an enclosed area where smoking is
4    prohibited.
5        (3) (Blank).
6        (4) Hotel and motel sleeping rooms that are rented to
7    guests and are designated as smoking rooms, provided that
8    all smoking rooms on the same floor must be contiguous and
9    smoke from these rooms must not infiltrate into nonsmoking
10    rooms or other areas where smoking is prohibited. Not more
11    than 25% of the rooms rented to guests in a hotel or motel
12    may be designated as rooms where smoking is allowed. The
13    status of rooms as smoking or nonsmoking may not be
14    changed, except to permanently add additional nonsmoking
15    rooms.
16        (5) Enclosed laboratories that are excluded from the
17    definition of "place of employment" in Section 10 of this
18    Act. Rulemaking authority to implement this amendatory Act
19    of the 95th General Assembly, if any, is conditioned on the
20    rules being adopted in accordance with all provisions of
21    the Illinois Administrative Procedure Act and all rules and
22    procedures of the Joint Committee on Administrative Rules;
23    any purported rule not so adopted, for whatever reason, is
24    unauthorized.
25        (6) Common smoking rooms in long-term care facilities
26    operated under the authority of the Illinois Department of

 

 

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1    Veterans' Affairs or licensed under the Nursing Home Care
2    Act that are accessible only to residents who are smokers
3    and have requested in writing to have access to the common
4    smoking room where smoking is permitted and the smoke shall
5    not infiltrate other areas of the long-term care facility.
6    Rulemaking authority to implement this amendatory Act of
7    the 95th General Assembly, if any, is conditioned on the
8    rules being adopted in accordance with all provisions of
9    the Illinois Administrative Procedure Act and all rules and
10    procedures of the Joint Committee on Administrative Rules;
11    any purported rule not so adopted, for whatever reason, is
12    unauthorized.
13        (7) Gaming facilities licensed under the Riverboat
14    Gambling Act, if smoking is not banned in gaming facilities
15    located in the nearest neighboring state. This exemption
16    shall no longer apply to a gaming facility on and after the
17    date that smoking is banned in gaming facilities located in
18    the nearest neighboring state.
19(Source: P.A. 95-17, eff. 1-1-08; 95-1029, eff. 2-4-09;
2096-1357, eff. 1-1-11.)
 
21    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
22becoming law.