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<regulation prefix="Regulation" num=".02" citation="COMAR 09.12.23.02" title_num="09" subtitle_num="12" chapter_num="23" heading="Exclusions.">
  <text>This chapter does not apply to:</text>
  <paragraph num="A.">
    <text>Private homes;</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="B.">
    <text>Residences, including residences used as a business or place of employment, unless being used by a person who is licensed or registered under Family Law Article, Title 5, Subtitle 5, Annotated Code of Maryland, to provide day care or child care;</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="C.">
    <text>Private vehicles, unless being used for the public transportation of children, or as part of health care or day care transportation;</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="D.">
    <text>A hotel or motel room rented to one or more guests as long as the total percent of hotel or motel rooms being so used does not exceed 25 percent;</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="E.">
    <text>A retail tobacco business that is a sole proprietorship, limited liability company, corporation, partnership, or other enterprise, in which:</text>
    <paragraph num="(1)">
      <text>The primary activity is the retail sale of tobacco products and accessories; and</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(2)">
      <text>The sale of other products is incidental;</text>
    </paragraph>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="F.">
    <text>Any facility of a manufacturer, importer, wholesaler, or distributor of tobacco products or of any tobacco leaf dealer or processor in which employees of the manufacturer, importer, wholesaler, distributor, or processor work or congregate; or</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="G.">
    <text>A research or educational laboratory for the purpose of conducting scientific research into the health effects of tobacco smoke.</text>
  </paragraph>
</regulation>