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Local hotel director concerned about details of smoking ordinance  

The smoking ban ordinance has some exceptions, meaning you can smoke in private buildings, homes and hotels.

Lee Evans, director of operations at the Country Inn and Suites, said that's not a problem.

He said the problem is having an ordinance that's hard to enforce and understand.

“It’s contradictory language,” he said.

Evans said it starts on page nine of the ordinance that says smoking is prohibited in hotels and motels, where 80 percent of rooms are available for rent to guests. . . .

no more than 20 percent of rooms can be smoking.

Evans said he'd prefer it be all or nothing.

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