A.    Any owner or manager of a restaurant  subject to this chapter may apply for an exemption or  modification of its provisions. Exemptions may only be granted on:

    1.    A showing by the petitioner of a significant financial hardship due to compliance; or

    2.    The proposed implementation of an alternative approach or technology which would provide equivalent protection for the health hazards of second hand smoke.

    B.    All restaurants shall be granted an exemption from the one hundred percent no smoking requirements of Section 8.20.110 until February 24, 1993. During such exemption period, restaurants shall provide a non-smoking area of eighty percent of the restaurants' total seating capacity.

    C.    The city council shall, by resolution, establish an application and review procedure for the consideration of applications for exemptions under this section.

    D.    Any restaurant granted an exemption pursuant to this section shall post conspicuous signs so stating that the establishment is a smoking establishment. The sign shall contain all capital lettering no less than one inch in height on a contrasting background. (Ord. 491 § 1, 1992)