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<baltimore-city-law heading="§ 12-107.2 Exceptions – Electronic smoking devices in certain restaurants and taverns.">
  <section prefix="§" num="12-107.2" heading="Exceptions – Electronic smoking devices in certain restaurants and taverns.">
    <para num="(a)" heading="Definitions.">
      <para num="(1)" heading="In general.">In this section, the following terms have the meanings indicated.</para>
      <para num="(2)" heading="Restaurant.">“Restaurant” means a  business establishment that:<para num="(i)">is devoted primarily to serving food and drinks to the public for on-premises consumption by seated patrons; and</para>
        <para num="(ii)">might or might not also serve alcoholic beverages.</para>
      </para>
      <para num="(3)" heading="Tavern.">“Tavern”  means a business establishment that:<para num="(i)">is devoted primarily to serving alcoholic beverages to the public for on-premises consumption; and</para>
        <para num="(ii)">might or might not also serve food.</para>
      </para>
    </para>
    <para num="(b)" heading="In general.">This subtitle does not apply to the use of electronic smoking devices in a restaurant or tavern or in 1 or more designated areas of a restaurant or tavern, as the case may be, if the establishment notifies its patrons and potential patrons that the use of electronic smoking devices is allowed on or in designated areas of the premises, as the case may be.</para>
    <para num="(c)" heading="Method and tenor  of notification.">
      <para num="(1)">The notification required by this section must be provided both:<para num="(i)">by a prominently posted notice, at least 17" x 22", that is clearly readable by all patrons on entry to the establishment; and</para>
        <para num="(ii)">by a conspicuous notice, in at least 20-pt. font size, printed on each menu provided to patrons.</para>
      </para>
      <para num="(2)">The tenor of the notices must be substantially as follows:
“This {restaurant / tavern} allows the use of electronic smoking devices {in designated areas / throughout the premises}.”</para>
    </para>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 14-310</annotation>
  </section>
</baltimore-city-law>
