LAW'S LANGUAGE ALLOWS A LOOPHOLE
Jump to full article: Lexington (KY) Herald-Leader, 2008-04-19
Author: Michelle Ku
Intro: Changes could be coming to Lexington's 4-year-old law that prohibits smoking in almost all enclosed public places.
Urban County Councilman David Stevens is spearheading an effort to review the "persistent problems" with the current law and to recommend the first revisions to the public indoor smoking ban since it was implemented in April 2004.
Problems with the law include enforcement issues such as gathering the proper documentation to prosecute a smoking ban citation in the courts and whether the patron doing the smoking or the business where the patron is smoking should be cited for violating the ban.
The largest problem is the bingo halls and whether high school booster clubs that run bingo should be considered private organizations, which are exempt from the smoking ban
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