§1291.3. Definitions
For the purposes of this Part, the following terms shall have the following meanings
unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:
(1)"Bar" means a business that holds a Class A-General retail permit and the
primary purpose of such business is to serve alcoholic beverages for consumption by guests
on the premises and in which the serving of food is only incidental to the consumption of
those beverages, including but not limited to, taverns, nightclubs, cocktail lounges, and
cabarets.
(2)"Business" means any corporation, sole proprietorship, partnership, limited
partnership, professional corporation, enterprise, franchise, association, trust, joint venture,
or other entity.
(3)"Department" means the Louisiana Department of Health.
(4)"Employer" means an individual
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§1291.3. Definitions
For the purposes of this Part, the following terms shall have the following meanings
unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:
(1) "Bar" means a business that holds a Class A-General retail permit and the
primary purpose of such business is to serve alcoholic beverages for consumption by guests
on the premises and in which the serving of food is only incidental to the consumption of
those beverages, including but not limited to, taverns, nightclubs, cocktail lounges, and
cabarets.
(2) "Business" means any corporation, sole proprietorship, partnership, limited
partnership, professional corporation, enterprise, franchise, association, trust, joint venture,
or other entity.
(3) "Department" means the Louisiana Department of Health.
(4) "Employer" means an individual or a business that employs one or more
individuals.
(5) "Enclosed area" means all space between a floor and ceiling that is enclosed on
all sides by solid walls or windows, exclusive of doorways, which extend from the floor to
the ceiling.
(6) "Local governing authority" means a municipal or parish governing authority.
(7) "Place of employment" means an area under the control of an employer that
employees normally frequent during the course of employment, including, but not limited
to, work areas, employee lounges, restrooms, conference rooms, meeting rooms, classrooms,
employee cafeterias, hallways, and vehicles. A private residence is not a place of
employment unless it is used as a licensed child care, adult day care, or healthcare facility.
(8) "Public building" means any building owned or operated by any of the following:
(a) The state, including the legislative, executive, and judicial branches of state
government.
(b) Any parish, city, or town, or instrumentality thereof, or any other political
subdivision of the state, special district, authority, commission, or agency.
(c) Any other separate corporate instrumentality or entity of state or local
government.
(9) "Public place" means an enclosed area to which the public is invited or in which
the public is permitted which is not a public building, including but not limited to banks,
educational facilities, healthcare facilities, hotel and motel lobbies, laundromats, public
transportation facilities, reception areas, restaurants, retail food production and marketing
establishments, retail service establishments, retail stores, shopping malls, sports arenas,
theaters, and waiting rooms.
(10) "Restaurant" means an eating establishment, including but not limited to, coffee
shops, cafeterias, sandwich stands, and school cafeterias, which gives or offers for sale food
to the public, guests, or employees, as well as kitchens and catering facilities in which food
is prepared on the premises for serving elsewhere. The term "restaurant" shall include a bar
located within a restaurant.
(11) "Retail tobacco business" means a business utilized primarily for the sale of
tobacco products and accessories and in which the sale of other products is incidental.
(12) "School" means any elementary or secondary school building, the campus of any
school, any buildings on the campus, and all school buses.
(13) "Secondhand smoke" means smoke emitted from lighted, smoldering, or
burning tobacco when the smoker is not inhaling, smoke emitted at the mouthpiece during
puff drawing, and smoke exhaled by the smoker.
(14) "Smoking" means inhaling, exhaling, burning, carrying, or possessing any
lighted tobacco product, including cigarettes, cigars, pipe tobacco, and any other lighted
combustible plant material.