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 1        AN ACT in relation to clean air.

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

 4        Section 5.  The Illinois Clean Indoor Air Act is  amended
 5    by changing Section 3 as follows:

 6        (410 ILCS 80/3) (from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 8203)
 7        Sec.  3.   For  the  purposes  of this Act, the following
 8    terms have the meanings ascribed  to  them  in  this  Section
 9    unless  different  meanings  are  plainly  indicated  by  the
10    context:
11        (a)  "Department" means the Department of Public Health.
12        (b)  "Proprietor"  means any individual or his designated
13    agent who by virtue of his office,  position,  authority,  or
14    duties has legal or administrative responsibility for the use
15    or operation of property.
16        (c)  "Public  Place"  means  an  any enclosed indoor area
17    used by the public or serving as a place of  work  including,
18    but  not  limited  to, hospitals, restaurants, retail stores,
19    offices,   commercial   establishments,   elevators,   indoor
20    theaters,  libraries,  art  museums,  concert  halls,  public
21    conveyances,   educational   facilities,    nursing    homes,
22    auditoriums, arenas, and meeting rooms, but excluding bowling
23    establishments and excluding places whose primary business is
24    the  sale  of  alcoholic  beverages  for  consumption  on the
25    premises and excluding rooms rented for the purpose of living
26    quarters or sleeping or housekeeping  accommodations  from  a
27    hotel, as defined in the Hotel Operators' Occupation Tax Act,
28    and   private,   enclosed  offices  occupied  exclusively  by
29    smokers,  even  though  such  offices  may  be   visited   by
30    nonsmokers.
31        (d)  "Smoking"  means  the act of inhaling the smoke from
 
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 1    or possessing a lighted cigarette, cigar, pipe, or any  other
 2    form of tobacco or similar substance used for smoking.
 3        (e)  "State  agency" has the meaning formerly ascribed to
 4    it in subsection (a) of Section 3 of the Illinois  Purchasing
 5    Act (now repealed).
 6        (f)  "Unit  of local government" has the meaning ascribed
 7    to  it  in  Section  1  of  Article  VII  of   the   Illinois
 8    Constitution of 1970.
 9    (Source: P.A. 92-651, eff. 7-11-02.)