Fiscal Note
No additional appropriation is required. There is no anticipated impact upon cost controls or the tax levy.
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Amending Sections 23.05(1) and 23.05(3)(c), repealing Sections 23.05(3)(s), (t) & (u) and amending Section 23.05(7) of the Madison General Ordinances to eliminate prohibition of smoking in certain public, non City-owned places.
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DRAFTER'S ANALYSIS: This ordinance reverses the broad smoking ban made by Ord. 13,604 (adopted 4-20-04) which became effective July 1, 2005. It makes no revisions to the provisions of that ordinance which added regulation of smoking on City-owned properties such as Madison Police Department interview rooms and park shelters, but restores the exceptions for privately-owned meeting and conference rooms, taverns, and full service bar areas which that ordinance removed, as well as eliminating the smoking restrictions on common areas in bed and breakfast establishments, hotels and motels, which Ord. 13,604 created. The ordinance also makes permanent the exception for a separately-ventilated smoking room in a restaurant, by deleting the sunset clause which would repeal that exception in January, 2006.
The ordinance also makes changes to several definitions which were established by Ord. 13,604, deleting the definition for "bed and breakfast establishment", a facility which is no longer referenced in Section 23.05, restoring the previous definitions for "full service bar", "full service bar area", and "private club", and eliminating "bowling centers" from the definition of sports arenas and thus from the smoking ban.
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The Common Council of the City of Madison do hereby ordain as follows:
1. Subsection (1) entitled "Definitions" of Section 23.05 entitled "Smoking Prohibited in Certain Areas" of the Madison General Ordinances is amended by adding, deleting or amending therein the following:
"Bed and breakfast esta...
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