New Hampshire Code of Administrative Rules
He - Department of Health and Human Services
Subtitle He-P - Former Division of Public Health Services
Chapter He-P 1900 - INDOOR SMOKING RULES
Part He-P 1901 - DEFINITIONS
Section He-P 1901.02 - Definitions

Universal Citation: NH Admin Rules He-P 1901.02

Current through Register No. 40, October 3, 2024

(a) "Act" means RSA 155:64 to RSA 155:78, the Indoor Smoking Act, and includes the rules adopted pursuant to the Act.

(b) "Acute care facility" means the following:

(1) A hospital as defined in (i) below;

(2) Infirmaries;

(3) Ambulatory surgical centers;

(4) Outpatient clinics;

(5) Prenatal clinics;

(6) Well-baby clinics;

(7) Well-child clinics;

(8) Free-standing kidney dialysis units;

(9) Free-standing radiological therapy units;

(10) Free-standing birthing centers;

(11) Mobile and free-standing x-ray units;

(12) Mobile and free-standing laboratory units;

(13) Mobile and free-standing emergency medical services units; and

(14) Mobile medical units.

(c) "Cocktail lounge" means "cocktail lounge" as defined in RSA 155:65, I.

(d) "Commissioner" means "commissioner" as defined in RSA 155:65, III.

(e) "Department" means "department" as defined in RSA 155:65, IV.

(f) "Determining preference" means ascertaining whether an individual prefers to reside in or to work in a no-smoking designated area of a facility or a smoking-permitted designated area of a facility that is effectively segregated.

(g) "Effectively segregated" means "effectively segregated" as defined in RSA 155:65, V.

(h) "Health care facility" means "health care facility" as defined in RSA 155:65, VII, and includes hospitals licensed under RSA 151 which provide psychiatric, substance abuse, and physical rehabilitation care on an outpatient or inpatient basis.

(i) "Hospital" means a health care facility where the ill or injured can receive medical, surgical, or psychiatric treatment and nursing care on an inpatient or outpatient basis.

(j) "Multi-resident building" means a building containing multiple separate and distinct domiciles such as rooms, suites of rooms, or apartments.

(k) "Person in charge" means "person in charge" as defined in 155:65, IX.

(l) "Public housing" means dwelling units, which are funded through public funds.

(m) "Resident room" means the place in which a person resides and has sleeping accommodations within a multi-resident building.

(n) "Restaurant" means "restaurant" as defined in RSA 155:65, XIV.

(o) "Smoking" means "smoking" as defined in RSA 155:65, XV.

(p) "Subsidized housing" means dwellings which are rented with the renter receiving monetary support to pay the rent, in whole or in part from public funds.

(q) "Unreasonably intrude" means a condition whereby smoke from a smoking-permitted area enters a no-smoking area such that ambient air quality standards for fine particulate matter exceed United States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) standards per 40 CFR part 50 .

(r) "Written policies" means "written policies" pursuant to RSA 155:68, I and II.

(s) "Written procedures" means "written procedures" as specified in RSA 155:69 and also means written procedures for effectively segregating all smoking-permitted designated areas from no-smoking designated areas.

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