CHAPTER 155 FACTORIES, TENEMENTS, SCHOOLHOUSES, AND PLACES OF PUBLIC ACCOMMODATION, RESORT OR ASSEMBLY
Indoor Smoking Act
Section 155:67
155:67 Exemptions. –
The following shall be exempted from the requirements of this subdivision:
I. Public conveyances rented for private purposes.
II. Buildings owned and operated by social, fraternal, or religious organizations when used by the membership of the organization, their guests or families, or when they are rented or leased for private functions from which the public is excluded and arrangements are under the control of the sponsor of the function and not the organization.
III. Guest rooms of hotels, motels and resorts.
IV. Halls, ballrooms, dining rooms and conference rooms of hotels, motels, restaurants, resorts, and publicly accessible buildings or portions thereof, excluding those that are publicly owned, when rented or leased for private functions from which the public is excluded and arrangements are under the control of the sponsor of the function and not of the proprietor or person in charge of the facility.
V. Resident rooms in dormitories operated by postsecondary educational institutions, but such dormitories shall follow any appropriate procedures established under RSA 155:71, I.
VI. Resident rooms in public housing facilities, but such facilities shall follow any appropriate procedures established under RSA 155:71, I.
VII. Resident rooms in facilities such as nursing homes, sheltered care facilities, and residential treatment and rehabilitation facilities, and prisons and detention facilities, but such facilities shall follow any appropriate procedures established under RSA 155:71, I.
VIII. [Repealed.]
IX. [Repealed.]
X. Health care facilities, except for hospitals and other acute care facilities, provided that the health care facilities shall follow any appropriate procedures established under RSA 155:71, I.
XI. Patients with extraordinary medical conditions, psychiatric disorders, or patients in an alcohol and drug withdrawal program, provided that the patient's physician has written a prescription or an order allowing the patient to smoke.
Source. 1990, 236:2. 2007, 203:4, I, II, eff. Sept. 17, 2007.