<div class="chunk-title">Sec. 32-32. - Definitions.</div>
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               The following definitions are applicable to this division:
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               <span class="ital">Bus stop.</span> A designated area, whether enclosed or unenclosed, on county, town, and city grounds
               where buses stop for passengers to board or exit a bus. This term shall include areas
               at bus stops and shelters, beginning at the bus stop sign and extending for a radius
               of 100 feet around the bus stop sign. This area expressly excludes any private property
               that may fall within the 100-foot radius of the bus stop sign or any area exempt by
               this article.
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               <span class="ital">Cigar bar.</span> An establishment with a permit to sell alcoholic beverages pursuant to subsection
               (1), (3), (5), or (10) of G.S. 18B-1001 that satisfies all of the following:
               
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                  a.
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                  Generates 60 percent or more of its quarterly gross revenue from the sale of alcoholic
                  beverages and 25 percent or more of its quarterly gross revenue from the sale of cigars.
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                  b.
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                  Has a humidor on the premises.
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                  c.
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                  Does not allow individuals under the age of 21 to enter the premises.
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                  d.
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                  Revenue generated from other smoking and e-cigarette sales, including cigarette vending
                  machines, shall not be used to determine whether an establishment satisfies the definition
                  of cigar bar.
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               <span class="ital">County building.</span> A building owned, leased as lessor, or the area leased as lessee and occupied by
               New Hanover County.
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               <span class="ital">County grounds.</span> An unenclosed area owned, leased, or occupied by New Hanover County, except where
               smoking and e-cigarette use is expressly permitted by the county within designated
               areas.
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               <span class="ital">County vehicle.</span> A passenger-carrying vehicle owned, leased, or otherwise controlled by New Hanover
               County and assigned permanently or temporarily to its employees, agencies, institutions,
               or facilities for official county business and public conveyances available to the
               general public.
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               <span class="ital">E-cigarette</span> or <span class="ital">electronic cigarette.</span> Any electronic oral device that employs a mechanical heating element, battery, or
               electronic circuit regardless of shape or size, that can be used to heat a liquid
               nicotine solution or any other substance, and the use of inhalation of which simulates
               smoking. The term shall include any such device, whether manufactured, distributed,
               marketed or sold as an e-cigarette, e-cigar, e-pipe, or under any other product name
               or descriptor.
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               <span class="ital">Employee.</span> A person who is employed by New Hanover County, the City of Wilmington, or by the
               Towns of Wrightsville Beach, Carolina Beach, and Kure Beach; or who contracts with
               the county, city, and towns; a third person who performs services for the county,
               city, and towns; or who otherwise performs services for the county, city, and towns
               with or without compensation.
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               <span class="ital">Enclosed area.</span> An area with a roof or other overhead covering of any kind and walls or side coverings
               of any kind, regardless of the presence of openings for ingress and egress, on all
               sides or on all sides but one.
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               <span class="ital">International "No Smoking" symbol.</span> A symbol consisting of a pictorial representation of a burning cigarette enclosed
               in a red circle with a red bar across it.
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               <span class="ital">Local health department.</span> The New Hanover County Health Department, the jurisdiction of which includes New
               Hanover County, the City of Wilmington, and the Towns of Wrightsville Beach, Carolina
               Beach, and Kure Beach.
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               <span class="ital">Local health director.</span> Administrative head of the New Hanover County Health Department appointed pursuant
               to G.S. ch. 130A.
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               <span class="ital">Lodging establishment.</span> An establishment that provides lodging for pay to the public.
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               <span class="ital">Private club.</span> A country club or an organization that maintains selective members, is operated by
               the membership, does not provide food or lodging for pay to anyone who is not a member
               or a member's guest, and is either incorporated as a nonprofit corporation in accordance
               with G.S. ch. 55A or is exempt from federal income tax under the Internal Revenue
               Code as defined in G.S. 105-130.2(1). For the purposes of this article, private club
               includes country club.
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               <span class="ital">Private residence.</span> A private dwelling that is not a child care facility, as defined in G.S. 110-86(3),
               and not a long-term care facility, as defined in G.S. 131E-114.3(a)(l).
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               <span class="ital">Private vehicle.</span> A privately owned vehicle that is not used for commercial or employment purposes.
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               <span class="ital">Public place.</span> An enclosed area to which the public is invited or in which the public is permitted.
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               <span class="ital">Smoking.</span> The use or possession of a lighted cigarette, lighted cigar, lighted pipe, or any
               other lighted smoking and e-cigarette product.
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               <span class="ital">Smoking and e-cigarette shop.</span> A business establishment, the main purpose of which is the sale of smoking and e-cigarette,
               smoking and e-cigarette products, and accessories for such products, that receives
               no less than 75 percent of its total annual revenues from the sale of smoking and
               e-cigarette, smoking and e-cigarette products, and accessories for such products,
               and does not serve food or alcohol on its premises.
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               <span class="ital">Smoking and e-cigarette use.</span> Included, but not limited to, vaping, smokeless smoking, and e-cigarette products.
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               <span class="ital">Town</span> or <span class="ital">towns and city.</span> The Towns of Wrightsville Beach, Carolina Beach, and Kure Beach, and the City of
               Wilmington within New Hanover County.
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               <span class="ital">Town/city building.</span> A building owned, leased as lessor, or the area leased as lessee and occupied by
               the Towns of Wrightsville Beach, Carolina Beach, Kure Beach, and the City of Wilmington.
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               <span class="ital">Town/city grounds.</span> An unenclosed area owned, leased, or occupied by the Towns of Wrightsville Beach,
               Carolina Beach, Kure Beach, and the City of Wilmington, excepting where smoking and
               e-cigarette use is expressly permitted by town/city within designated areas.
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               <span class="ital">Town/city vehicle.</span> A passenger carrying vehicle owned, leased, or otherwise controlled by the towns
               of Wrightsville Beach, Carolina Beach, Kure Beach, and the City of Wilmington in New
               Hanover County and assigned permanently or temporarily to their employees, agencies,
               institutions, or facilities for official town/city business and public conveyances
               available to the general public.
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               (Ord. of 11-16-2020, Â§ 2)
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