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 1        AN ACT concerning environmental protection.

 2        Be it enacted by the People of  the  State  of  Illinois,
 3    represented in the General Assembly:

 4        Section  1.  Short  title.   This Act may be cited as the
 5    Illinois Stadium Clean Air Act.

 6        Section 5.  Findings.  The General  Assembly  finds  that
 7    smoking at stadiums is a hazard and a danger to public safety
 8    and that tobacco smoke is annoying, harmful, and dangerous to
 9    human beings and a hazard to public health.

10        Section 10.  Definition. As used in this Act:
11        "Stadium" means a publicly or privately owned or operated
12    sports  or entertainment arena, community or convention hall,
13    special event center,  or  amusement  facility,  including  a
14    special event center in a public park.

15        Section  15.  No  smoking  in  stadiums.  No person shall
16    smoke or possess a lighted  cigarette,  cigar,  pipe  or  any
17    other  form  of tobacco or similar substance used for smoking
18    at any stadium in this State.

19        Section 20.  Penalties.   Any  person  who  violates  the
20    provisions   of  this  Act  is  guilty  of  a  petty  offense
21    punishable by a fine of not less than $25 nor more than $250.

22        Section 800.   The  Illinois  Clean  Indoor  Air  Act  is
23    amended by changing Section 4 as follows:

24        (410 ILCS 80/4) (from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 8204)
25        Sec.  4.  Smoking  in public places; exception. No person
26    shall  smoke  in  any  of  the  following:  (i)  a  hospital,
 
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 1    including entrances and exits or  on  the  hospital  grounds,
 2    (ii)   an  ambulatory  surgical  treatment  center,  (iii)  a
 3    post-surgical  recovery   center,   (iv)   a   dentist's   or
 4    physician's  office,  (v)  any other health care professional
 5    office or health care facility,  except  that  residents  may
 6    smoke in their rooms in a facility licensed under the Nursing
 7    Home Care Act, or (vi) a restaurant. No person shall smoke in
 8    any  other  a public place except in that portion of a public
 9    place which may be established and posted under Section 5  as
10    a  smoking area.  This prohibition does not apply in cases in
11    which an entire room or hall is used  for  a  private  social
12    function  and  seating  arrangements are under the control of
13    the sponsor of the function and  not  of  the  proprietor  or
14    person  in charge of the place. Furthermore, this prohibition
15    shall not apply to factories, warehouses and  similar  places
16    of work not usually frequented by the general public.
17    (Source: P.A. 86-1018.)

18        Section 999.  Effective date.  This Act takes effect upon
19    becoming law.