§ 13-8-101. DEFINITIONS.

(a)

In general. In this title the following words have the meanings indicated.

(b)

Bar.

(1)

(i)

"Bar" means an establishment or portion of an establishment where an individual may purchase and consume alcoholic beverages.

(ii)

"Bar" includes a lounge.

(2)

"Bar" does not include an establishment or portion of the establishment having table and seating facilities for serving meals and where, in consideration of payment, meals are served at tables to the public.

(c)

Health care facility.

(1)

"Health care facility" means an office or institution providing individual care or treatment of:

(i)

Physical, mental, or emotional diseases; or

(ii)

Medical, physiological, or psychological conditions.

(2)

"Health care facility" includes:

(i)

A hospital, clinic, nursing home, a facility as defined in COMAR 10.07.14.02, or home for the aging or chronically ill; and

(ii)

The office of a physician, dentist, psychologist, psychiatrist, physiologist, podiatrist, optometrist, or optician.

(d)

Public meeting. "Public meeting" means a meeting, wherever held, that is open to the public and having no membership restraints.

(e)

Public place.

(1)

(i)

"Public place" means an enclosed, indoor area that is open to or used by the general public or serves as a place of work.

(ii)

"Public place" includes a government building, retail store, office, bank, restaurant, cafeteria, hotel, motel, public conveyance, elevator, health care facility, classroom, lecture hall, concert hall, theater, movie house, museum, gallery, library, auditorium, social hall, arena, meeting room when used for a public meeting, and service line doing business with the general public.

(2)

Except for a county building and a county-occupied space, "public place" does not include the private enclosed office of an individual where members of the general public are not normally present.

(f)

Smoking. "Smoking" means:

(1)

The act of smoking or carrying a lighted cigar, cigarette, pipe of any kind, or any lighted tobacco; or

(2)

Lighting a cigar, cigarette, pipe of any kind, or tobacco of any kind.

(1988 Code, § 17-138) (Bill No. 121-93, § 1, 10-25-1993; Bill No. 105-00, § 2, 7-1-2004)