Okla. Stat. tit. 63, § 63-1-1522
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Definitions
Official statutory text
As used in this act:
1. "Educational facility" means a building owned, leased or
under the control of a technology center school district or a public
or private college or university;
2. "Health facility" means an entity which provides health
services, including, but not limited to, hospitals, nursing homes,
long-term care facilities, kidney disease treatment centers, health
maintenance organizations and ambulatory treatment centers;
3. "Indoor workplace" means any indoor place of employment or
employment-type service for or at the request of another individual
or individuals, or any public or private entity, whether part-time
or full-time and whether for compensation or not. Such services
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shall include, without limitation, any service performed by an
owner, employee, independent contractor, agent, partner, proprietor,
manager, officer, director, apprentice, trainee, associate, servant
or volunteer. An indoor workplace includes work areas, employee
lounges, restrooms, conference rooms, classrooms, employee
cafeterias, hallways, any other spaces used or visited by employees,
and all space between a floor and ceiling that is predominantly or
totally enclosed by walls or windows, regardless of doors, doorways,
open or closed windows, stairways, or the like. The provisions of
this section shall apply to such indoor workplace at any given time,
whether or not work is being performed;
4. "Meeting" means a meeting as defined in the Oklahoma Open
Meeting Act;
5. "Public body" means a public body as defined in the Oklahoma
Open Meeting Act;
6. "Public place" means any enclosed indoor area where
individuals other than employees are invited or permitted;
7. "Restaurant" means any eating establishment regardless of
seating capacity;
8. "Smoking" means the carrying by a person of a lighted cigar,
cigarette, pipe or other lighted smoking device; and
9. "Stand-alone bar", "stand-alone tavern", and "cigar bar"
mean an establishment that derives more than sixty percent (60%) of
its gross receipts, subject to verification by competent authority,
from the sale of alcoholic beverages and low-point beer and no
person under twenty-one (21) years of age is admitted, except for
members of a musical band employed or hired as provided in paragraph
2 of subsection B of Section 537 of Title 37 of the Oklahoma
Statutes and that is not located within, and does not share any
common entryway or common indoor area with, any other enclosed
indoor workplace, including a restaurant.
1. "Educational facility" means a building owned, leased or
under the control of a technology center school district or a public
or private college or university;
2. "Health facility" means an entity which provides health
services, including, but not limited to, hospitals, nursing homes,
long-term care facilities, kidney disease treatment centers, health
maintenance organizations and ambulatory treatment centers;
3. "Indoor workplace" means any indoor place of employment or
employment-type service for or at the request of another individual
or individuals, or any public or private entity, whether part-time
or full-time and whether for compensation or not. Such services
Oklahoma Statutes - Title 63. Public Health and Safety Page 634
shall include, without limitation, any service performed by an
owner, employee, independent contractor, agent, partner, proprietor,
manager, officer, director, apprentice, trainee, associate, servant
or volunteer. An indoor workplace includes work areas, employee
lounges, restrooms, conference rooms, classrooms, employee
cafeterias, hallways, any other spaces used or visited by employees,
and all space between a floor and ceiling that is predominantly or
totally enclosed by walls or windows, regardless of doors, doorways,
open or closed windows, stairways, or the like. The provisions of
this section shall apply to such indoor workplace at any given time,
whether or not work is being performed;
4. "Meeting" means a meeting as defined in the Oklahoma Open
Meeting Act;
5. "Public body" means a public body as defined in the Oklahoma
Open Meeting Act;
6. "Public place" means any enclosed indoor area where
individuals other than employees are invited or permitted;
7. "Restaurant" means any eating establishment regardless of
seating capacity;
8. "Smoking" means the carrying by a person of a lighted cigar,
cigarette, pipe or other lighted smoking device; and
9. "Stand-alone bar", "stand-alone tavern", and "cigar bar"
mean an establishment that derives more than sixty percent (60%) of
its gross receipts, subject to verification by competent authority,
from the sale of alcoholic beverages and low-point beer and no
person under twenty-one (21) years of age is admitted, except for
members of a musical band employed or hired as provided in paragraph
2 of subsection B of Section 537 of Title 37 of the Oklahoma
Statutes and that is not located within, and does not share any
common entryway or common indoor area with, any other enclosed
indoor workplace, including a restaurant.
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