Jump to full article: Mason City (IA) Globe-Gazette, 2009-08-05
Author: MARY PIEPER
Intro: A Hampton bar is under new management after having its liquor license suspended temporarily for violating the state public smoking ban.
The Alcoholic Beverages Division of the Iowa Department of Commerce suspended the liquor license for the Pit Row Pub for seven days, from 6 a.m. on July 27 through 6 a.m. on Aug. 3, for violations of the Iowa Smokefree Air Act.
Bar owners Kevin and Vickie Pralle also paid a $1,000 fine.
Vickie Pralle said the liquor license was up for renewal on Aug. 25. She said she and her husband agreed to voluntarily cancel the license to make it easier for new managers Tom and Jennifer Rooney to get their liquor license and reopen the bar quickly.
The Rooneys, who are leasing the building from the Pralles, have reopened the bar under the shortened name of Pit Row.
Pralle said she and her husband could have renewed their liquor license and continued to run the business, but "we do not believe in this (non-smoking) law. We don't think that it is fair."
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