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Copyrighted by SANTA CLARA COUNTY CODE & Municipal Code Corporation, 1998.

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Sec. B13-81. Definitions.

The definitions set forth in this section shall govern the application and interpretation of this chapter.

(a) Bar means an area which is devoted to the serving of alcoholic beverages and in which the service of food is only incidental to the consumption of such beverages.

(b) Bingo game means a game conducted by operators licensed pursuant to the provisions of the Santa Clara County Ordinance Code.

(c) Employee means any person who is employed by any employer in consideration for direct or indirect monetary wages or profits, including but not limited to temporary, permanent, part-time, and full-time employees and independent contractors.

(d) Employer means any person, as defined in this section, who employs the services of one or more persons.

(e) Enclosed means closed in by a roof and four walls with appropriate openings for ingress and egress.

(f) Hotel means hotel, motel, motor inn, bed and breakfast, boarding house, and other similar establishments in which the operator has the status of an "innkeeper."

(g) Person means any individual, firm, partnership, joint venture, association, social club, fraternal organization, joint stock company, corporation, municipal corporation, estate, trust, business trust, receiver, trustee, syndicate, or any other group or combination acting as a unit.

(h) Place of employment means any area under the control of a public or private employer which employees normally frequent during the course of employment, including, but not limited to, offices, work areas, hallways, lobbies, employee lounges, conference rooms, employee cafeterias, locker rooms, dressing areas, or eating places. A private residence is not a place of employment for purposes of this chapter, unless it is used as a child care facility, health care facility, or community care facility.

(i) Smoke or smoking means and includes the combustion of any lighted pipe, or lighted cigar or lighted cigarette of any kind or the lighting of a pipe, cigar or a cigarette of any kind, or any similar article or any other combustible substance in any manner or in any form.

(j) Smoke free area means any location in which smoking is prohibited by this chapter.

(k) Sports arena means sports pavilions, gymnasiums, health spas, boxing arenas, swimming pools, roller and ice rinks, bowling alleys, pool halls, and other similar places where members of the public assemble indoors to engage in physical exercise, participate in athletic competition, or witness sports events.

(Ord. No. NS-625.4, § 2, 1-4-94)

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