Citations Affected: IC 7.1-5-12-5.
Synopsis: Removal of bars and taverns from smoking ban exemption.
Removes the exemption for bars and taverns from the smoking
prohibition law.
Effective: July 1, 2013.
January 8, 2013, read first time and referred to Committee on Public Policy.
A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning
alcohol and tobacco.
leased by the owner of the facility that is adjacent to the facility.
(4) A satellite facility licensed under IC 4-31-5.5.
(5) An establishment owned or leased by a business that meets the
following requirements:
(A) The business was in business and permitted smoking on
December 31, 2012.
(B) The business prohibits entry by an individual who is less
than twenty-one (21) years of age.
(C) The owner or operator of the business holds a beer, liquor,
or wine retailer's permit.
(D) The business limits smoking in the establishment to either:
(i) cigar smoking; or
(ii) smoking with a waterpipe or hookah device.
(E) During the preceding calendar year, at least ten percent
(10%) of the business's annual gross income was from:
(i) the sale of cigars and the rental of onsite humidors; or
(ii) the sale of loose tobacco for use in a waterpipe or
hookah device.
(F) The person in charge of the business posts in the
establishment conspicuous signs that display the message that
cigarette smoking is prohibited.
(6) A premises owned or leased by and regularly used for the
activities of a business that meets all of the following:
(A) The business is exempt from federal income taxation
under 26 U.S.C. 501(c).
(B) The business:
(i) meets the requirements to be considered a club under
IC 7.1-3-20-1; or
(ii) is a fraternal club (as defined in IC 7.1-3-20-7).
(C) The business provides food or alcoholic beverages only to
its bona fide members and their guests.
(D) The business, during a meeting of the business's members,
voted within the previous two (2) years to allow smoking on
the premises.
(E) The business:
(i) provides a separate, enclosed, designated smoking room
or area that is adequately ventilated to prevent migration of
smoke to nonsmoking areas of the premises;
(ii) allows smoking only in the room or area described in
item (i); and
(iii) does not allow an individual who is less than eighteen
(18) years of age to enter into the room or area described in
item (i).
(7) A retail tobacco store used primarily for the sale of tobacco
products and tobacco accessories that meets the following
requirements:
(A) The owner or operator of the store held a valid tobacco
sales certificate issued under IC 7.1-3-18.5 on June 30, 2012.
(B) The store prohibits entry by an individual who is less than
eighteen (18) years of age.
(C) The sale of products other than tobacco products and
tobacco accessories is merely incidental.
(D) The sale of tobacco products accounts for at least
eighty-five percent (85%) of the store's annual gross sales.
(E) Food or beverages are not sold for consumption on the
premises, and there is not an area set aside for customers to
consume food or beverages on the premises.
(8) A bar or tavern:
(A) for which a permittee holds:
(i) a beer retailer's permit under IC 7.1-3-4;
(ii) a liquor retailer's permit under IC 7.1-3-9; or
(iii) a wine retailer's permit under IC 7.1-3-14;
(B) that does not employ an individual who is less than
eighteen (18) years of age;
(C) that does not allow an individual who:
(i) is less than twenty-one (21) years of age; and
(ii) is not an employee of the bar or tavern;
to enter any area of the bar or tavern; and
(D) that is not located in a business that would otherwise be
subject to this chapter.
(9) (8) A cigar manufacturing facility that does not offer retail
sales.
(10) (9) A premises of a cigar specialty store to which all of the
following apply:
(A) The owner or operator of the store held a valid tobacco
sales certificate issued under IC 7.1-3-18.5 on June 30, 2012.
(B) The sale of tobacco products and tobacco accessories
account accounts for at least fifty percent (50%) of the store's
annual gross sales.
(C) The store has a separate, enclosed, designated smoking
room that is adequately ventilated to prevent migration of
smoke to nonsmoking areas.
(D) Smoking is allowed only in the room described in clause
(C).