The Norfolk City Council will revisit a ban on smoking in city restaurants that was supposed to take effect at the end of March.

Norfolk would be the first Virginia city with such a ban, which the council approved in October.

But on Tuesday, Mayor Paul Fraim asked City Attorney Bernard A. Pishko to make some changes, such as exempting restaurants with 50 or fewer seats.

The council is to look at the changes when it meets next week.

This year, state lawmakers killed bills that would have given Virginia Beach and other area cities the explicit right to ban smoking. Pishko has said Norfolk's charter allows the city to ban smoking.