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<regulation prefix="Regulation" num=".03" citation="COMAR 10.19.04.03" title_num="10" subtitle_num="19" chapter_num="04" heading="Exclusions.">
  <text>This chapter does not apply to:</text>
  <paragraph num="A.">
    <text>Private homes and residences, including a residence 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="B.">
    <text>Private vehicles, unless being used:</text>
    <paragraph num="(1)">
      <text>For the public transportation of children; or</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(2)">
      <text>As part of health care or day care transportation;</text>
    </paragraph>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="C.">
    <text>A hotel or motel room rented to one or more guests, if the total percent of hotel or motel rooms being rented where smoking or vaping is allowed, does not exceed 25 percent of the guest rooms in the hotel or motel;</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="D.">
    <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="E.">
    <text>A facility of a manufacturer, importer, wholesaler, or distributor of tobacco-containing products or a tobacco leaf dealer or processor in which employees of the manufacturer, importer, wholesaler, distributor, or processor work or congregate; and</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="F.">
    <text>A research or educational laboratory for the purpose of conducting scientific research into the health effects of environmental smoke.</text>
  </paragraph>
</regulation>