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G~~~L WELFARE - 3 t»-'0 "Saz" means an establishment in which the sale and consumpnon of intoxicating liquor on the orerruses is authorized under a license issued by the department of liquor control. i61 "Restauran~' means a retail eating establishment authorized by the State department of health :o operate as a restaurant. 1197-. Ord. No. 279, sec. Am. 1987. Ord. No. 37-I, sec. Z.) Section 13-21. Prohibition in certain places open to the public (a) Excep[ as otherwise provided herein, smoking shall be prohibited in the following places within tr.e Councv: (1) Elevators in buildings generally open to and used by the public, including elevators in apartment and ocher multi-unit residential buildings. Private and semiprivate rooms, wards, wairing rooms, lobbies, and public hallways of private health care facilities, including, but no[ limited to, hospitals, cGrrics. and physicians' and dennsu' offices. (A) Nothing in this section shall prevent a facility from establishing waiting azeas where smoking is permitted where smoking areas comprise no more than fifty percen[ of the waiting aces space in the facility if the smoking areas aze physically separated by walls so tha[ smoke does not petrrteate into nonsmoking azeas. (3) Any room which is primarily used for exhibiting any motion picture, stage drama, dance, musical performance or other similar performance during the time that the room, hall, or auditorium is open to the public for such exhibition. (4) Museums, libraries and galleries, provided [hat smoking may be permitted in a designa[ed portion of the reading atza in a library if the smoking area comprises no more than twenty percent of the reading azea in the library and is physically separated by walls or partitions from the remainder of the library so that smoke does not permeate into nonsmoking areas. Restaurants with a seating capacity of more than forty patrons. (A) Nothing in this section shall prevent a restaurant of more than forty patrons from providing smoking areas which are reasonably proportionate to the preference of its users. (B) Where an establishment is both a resratrrarrt and baz, the establishment shall be deemed as the type of enterprise from which the major source of income is derived, provided that if [he restaurant services are provided in one section and the baz services are provided in another section, the restaurant section itself shall be subject to this section. (6) The following facilities or azeas in County-owned or controlled buildings: (A) Meeting or conference roams; (B) Auditorium or sports areas that aze enclosed; (C) Community centers where persons may gather for meetings, parties, or any other purpose where the area is enclosed; (D) All azeas open to the public, including service counters and reception or waiting areas, but excluding hallways, corridors or other passageways and'private, enclosed offices not generally open to the public for the transaction of business. (7) Except as otherwise provided in this section and subject to the exceptions in section 14-22, all areas open to the public in the following business establishments: (A) Food and grocery stores; (B) Drug stores; (C) Supermarkets; (D) Banks: (E) Savings and loan associations and industrial loan companies; (F) Retail department stores; (G) Credit unions. (8) Restrooms. Any res[room open to the public in places specified in this section. 14-15