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REVISIONS FROM DRASFT 1 TO DRAFT 2. SHADOW= ADDITION STRIKEOUT—DELETION AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CHAPTER 14, GENERAL WELFARE, HAWAII COUNTY CODE 1983 AS AMENDED, RELATING TO SMOKING IN PUBLIC PLACES. BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE COUNTY OF HAWAII: SECTION 1. Article 4 of Chapter 14 of the Hawaii Code 1983, is hereby amended to read as follows: "Article 4. Smoking in Public Places. Section 14-20. Definitions. (a) As used in this article, unless the context requires otherwise: (1) "Smoke" or"smoking"means and includes inhaling or exhaling upon, burning or carrying any lighted smoking equipment for tobacco; the personal habit commonly known as smoking. (2) "Open to the public"means areas within any building available for use by or accessible to the general public during the normal course of business conducted therein by either private or public entities. (3) "Building"means any area enclosed by a roof and at least three walls. (4) "Small businesses"means those business establishments having no more than five employees working on the business premises per established work shift. (5) "Bar"means an establishment in which the sale and consumption of intoxicating liquor on the premises is authorized under a license issued by the department of liquor control. (6) "Restaurant" means a retail eating establishment authorized by the State department of health to operate as a restaurant. "Shoreline" means the upper reaches of the wash of waves, other than storm and seismic waves, at high tide during the season of the year which the highest wash of the waves occurs, usually evidenced by the edge of vegetation growth, or the upper line of debris left by the wash of the waves. Section 14-21. Prohibition in certain places open to the public. (a) Except as otherwise provided herein, smoking shall be prohibited in the following places within the County: (1) Elevators in buildings generally open to and used by the public, including elevators in apartment and other multi-unit residential buildings. (2) Private and semiprivate rooms, wards, waiting rooms, lobbies, and public