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Article: Utah County smoking ban draft OK'd
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- Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
- Article date:
- July 29, 2008
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PROVO -- The Utah County Board of Health unanimously approved a
draft resolution Monday that would ban smoking in public parks
countywide.
County health officials will now present the proposed regulation
to the Utah County Council of Governments for its consideration and
possible approval.
The proposed regulation will be fashioned after an Orem city
ordinance that was approved earlier this month, which outlaws
smoking on any city-owned property or at any mass gathering. The
ordinance does have some exceptions; It allows tobacco use within a
10-foot radius surrounding two benches outside the 4th District
Court building, and cemeteries and city-owned golf courses are
excluded from the smoking ...