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COUNTY OF HAWAII STATE OF HAWAII <br />BILL NO. 191 <br />ORDINANCE NO. <br />AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CHAPTER 14, GENERAL WELFARE, HAWAII COUNTY <br />CODE 1983 AS AMENDED, RELATING TO SMOKING IN PUBLIC PLACES. <br />BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE COUNTY OF HAWAII: <br />SECTION 1. Article 4 of Chapter 14 of the Hawaii Code 1983, is hereby amended to <br />read as follows: <br />Article 4. Smoking in Public Places. <br />Section 14-20. Definitions. <br />(a) As used in this article, unless the context requires otherwise: <br />(1) "Smoke" or "smoking" means and includes inhaling or exhaling upon, burning or <br />carrying any lighted smoking equipment for tobacco; the personal habit <br />commonly known as smoking. <br />(2) "Open to the public" means areas within any building available for use by or <br />accessible to the general public during the normal course of business conducted <br />therein by either private or public entities. <br />(3) "Building" means any area enclosed by a roof and at least three walls. <br />(4) "Small businesses" means those business establishments having no more than five <br />employees working on the business premises per established work shift. <br />(5) `Bar' means an establishment in which the sale and consumption of intoxicating <br />liquor on the premises is authorized under a license issued by the department of <br />liquor control. <br />(6) "Restaurant' means a retail eating establishment authorized by the State <br />department of health to operate as a restaurant. <br />( "Shoreline" means the upper reaches of the wash of waves, other than storm and <br />seismic waves at high tide during the season of the year which the highest wash <br />of the waves occurs usually evidenced by the ed *et of vegetation growth or the <br />upper line of debris left by the wash of the waves <br />Section 14-21. Prohibition in certain places open to the public. <br />(a) Except as otherwise provided herein, smoking shall be prohibited in the following places <br />within the County: <br />(1) Elevators in buildings generally open to and used by the public, including <br />elevators in apartment and other multi -unit residential buildings. <br />(2) Private and semiprivate rooms, wads, waiting rooms, lobbies, and public <br />hallways of private health care facilities, including, but not limited to, hospitals, <br />