Section 1399-N. Definitions  


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  • For purposes of this article:
        1.  "Bar"  means any area, including outdoor seating areas, devoted to
      the sale and service of alcoholic beverages for on-premises  consumption
      and  where  the service of food is only incidental to the consumption of
      such beverages.
        2. "Employer" means  any  person,  partnership,  association,  limited
      liability  company, corporation or nonprofit entity which employs one or
      more persons, including the legislative, executive and judicial branches
      of state government and any political subdivision of the state.
        3. "Food service establishment"  means  any  area,  including  outdoor
      seating  areas,  or portion thereof in which the business is the sale of
      food for on-premises consumption.
        4. "Membership association" means a not-for-profit  entity  which  has
      been  created or organized for a charitable, philanthropic, educational,
      political, social or other similar purpose.
        5. "Place of employment" means any  indoor  area  or  portion  thereof
      under  the  control  of  an  employer in which employees of the employer
      perform services, and shall include, but not  be  limited  to,  offices,
      school  grounds,  retail  stores,  banquet  facilities,  theaters,  food
      stores, banks, financial institutions, factories,  warehouses,  employee
      cafeterias,  lounges,  auditoriums,  gymnasiums,  restrooms,  elevators,
      hallways, museums, libraries, bowling establishments,  employee  medical
      facilities,  rooms  or  areas containing photocopying equipment or other
      office equipment used in common, and company vehicles.
        6. "School grounds" means any  building,  structure,  and  surrounding
      outdoor grounds contained within a public or private pre-school, nursery
      school,  elementary  or  secondary  school's  legally  defined  property
      boundaries as registered in a county clerk's office,  and  any  vehicles
      used to transport children or school personnel.
        7.  "Retail  tobacco  business"  means  a sole proprietorship, limited
      liability company, corporation, partnership or other enterprise in which
      the primary  activity  is  the  retail  sale  of  tobacco  products  and
      accessories,  and  in  which  the  sale  of  other  products  is  merely
      incidental.
        8. "Smoking" means the burning of a lighted cigar, cigarette, pipe  or
      any other matter or substance which contains tobacco.