As used in this chapter unless the context otherwise requires:
1. "Bar" means an establishment or portion of an establishment where one can purchase and consume alcoholic beverages as defined in section 123.3, subsection 4, but excluding any establishment or portion of the establishment having table and seating facilities for serving of meals to more than fifty people at one time and where, in consideration of payment, meals are served at tables to the public.
2. "Public meeting" means a gathering in person of the members of a governmental body, whether an open or a closed session under chapter 21.
3. "Public place" means any enclosed indoor area used by the general public or serving as a place of work containing two hundred fifty or more square feet of floor space, including, but not limited to, all restaurants with a seating capacity greater than fifty, all retail stores, lobbies and malls, offices, including waiting rooms, and other commercial establishments; public conveyances with departures, travel, and destination entirely within this state; educational facilities; hospitals, clinics, nursing homes, and other health care and medical facilities; and auditoriums, elevators, theaters, libraries, art museums, concert halls, indoor arenas, and meeting rooms. "Public place" does not include a retail store at which fifty percent or more of the sales result from the sale of tobacco or tobacco products, the portion of a retail store where tobacco or tobacco products are sold, a private, enclosed office occupied exclusively by smokers even though the office may be visited by nonsmokers, a room used primarily as the residence of students or other persons at an educational facility, a sleeping room in a motel or hotel, or each resident's room in a health care facility. The person in custody or control of the facility shall provide a sufficient number of rooms in which smoking is not permitted to accommodate all persons who desire such rooms.
4. "Smoking" means the carrying of or control over a lighted cigar, cigarette, pipe, or other lighted smoking equipment.
[C79, 81, § 98A.1]
87 Acts, ch 219, § 1; 90 Acts, ch 1189, § 1
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