Authenticated PDF VersionThese regulations are adopted in accordance with authority vested in the Secretary, Department of Health and Social Services, by 16 Del.C. §2906(b). These regulations establish standards for the enforcement of the Clean Indoor Air Act as it relates to most indoor enclosed areas to which the general public is invited or in which the general public is permitted. Regulations establishing standards for the enforcement of the Clean Indoor Air Act affecting employers, employees and the workplace are adopted by the Department of Labor.
The Secretary, DHSS, or authorized designee shall have right of entry into any enclosed indoor area subject to 16 Del.C. Ch. 29.
6.2 For the purposes of these regulations:
“Department” means the Delaware Department of Health and Social Services (DHSS) as defined in Title 29 Del.C. §7901.
“Electronic Smoking Device” means any product containing or delivering nicotine or any other similar substance intended for human consumption that can be used by a person to simulate smoking through inhalation of vapor aerosol from the product. The term includes any such device, whether manufactured, distributed, marketed, or sold as an e-cigarette, e-cigar, e-pipe, e-hookah, or vape pen, or under any other product name or descriptor.
“Environmental Tobacco Smoke” (ETS), or "Secondhand Smoke" means the complex mixture formed from the escaping smoke of a burning tobacco product (termed as sidestream smoke) and smoke exhaled by the smoker. Exposure to ETS is also frequently referred to as "passive smoking" or "involuntary smoking."
“Enclosed Indoor Area” means an indoor area that is neither open nor partially enclosed except for normal means of access and egress through doors or passageways.
“Fraternal Benefit Society” means any incorporated society, order or supreme lodge, without capital stock, including one exempted under the provisions of 18 Del.C. §6237(a)(2) of this title, whether incorporated or not, conducted solely for the benefit of its members and their beneficiaries and not for profit, operated on a lodge system with ritualistic form of work, having a representative form of government and which provides benefits in accordance with this chapter.
“Private Club” means any club or organization that does not permit the general public to access its facilities or activities. Access is denied to anyone who does not agree or adhere to the rules of membership. In order to be considered a private club or organization for purposes of the Clean Indoor Air Act, the establishment must adhere to all of, but not limited to, the following criteria:
c. Is controlled by its membership and operates solely for the benefit and pleasure of its members;
d. Advertises exclusively and only to its members, excluding membership drives.
“Private Social Function” means a function to which the public is neither invited nor generally permitted access and which is held in separate indoor enclosed indoor area.
“Public Transportation of Children” means transportation that involves the transportation of children by a vehicle under the control of a daycare, school or other organizations.
“Secretary” means the Administrator of the Delaware Department of Health and Social Services (DHSS) of the State of Delaware, who shall hereafter in this document be referred to as: Secretary; The Secretary; or, Secretary, DHSS.
“Smoking” means the burning of a lighted cigarette, cigar, pipe or any other matter or substance that contains tobacco; or, the use of an electronic smoking device which creates an aerosol or vapor, or in any manner or in any form.
“Vapor Establishment” means a business that: 1) generates at least 80% of its revenue from the sale of electronic smoking devices and substances for use within electronic smoking devices; and 2) does not share indoor common space with other businesses unless there are doors from the vapor establishment to the indoor common space that remain closed other than for ingress and egress.
“Volunteer Fire Company” means a fire, ambulance, or rescue company recognized as such by the Delaware State Fire Prevention Commission.
7.1.1 Any enclosed indoor area, including, but not limited to, those listed in 16 Del.C. §2903, to which the general public is invited or in which the general public is permitted. This shall apply to any organization, business or establishment that caters to or offers goods or services or facilities to, or solicits patronage from the general public.
7.1.2 Government owned and/or operated means of mass transportation including buses, vans, trains, taxicabs and limousines.
7.2 No owner of any indoor enclosed area subject to 16 Del.C. Ch. 29 and/or person(s) responsible for the management of such area or employee thereof shall permit or authorize smoking by any person(s) in areas not designated specifically for the smoking of tobacco products as permitted by subsection 8.1.
8.0 Smoking Prohibitions Inapplicable
8.1 Smoking prohibitions shall not apply in the following:
8.1.1 Private homes, private residences and private automobiles;
8.1.3 Limousines under private hire;
8.1.6 Any fund raising activity or function sponsored by a fraternal benefit society as defined by 18 Del.C. §6201; provided, however, that the fund raising activity or function takes place upon property owned or leased by said organization; and
9.1 Failure to Properly Post and Maintain Signs
9.1.1 Owners, operators, managers or other person(s) having control of enclosed indoor areas subject to the regulations of 16 Del.C. Ch. 29 shall post signs which indicate “Warning: Smoking Permitted” prominently to indicate those locations where smoking is permitted pursuant to subsection 8.1. Failure to prominently post properly maintained signs with letters at least one (1) inch in height and in accord with the CLEAN INDOOR AIR ACT shall be a violation subject to administrative penalties as set forth in subsection 10.1 of the Clean Indoor Air Act Regulations.
