SMOKED IN PUBLIC PLACE.
■■■•'■ ' •■-' '.-;••■: •-• % ARRESTS MADE IN UTAH. • Three prominent residents of the State of Utah were recently arrested by deputysheriffs on charges of violating the anticigarette law by smoking in a public place. The arrests were made in a restaurant in Salt Lake .'City., Bankers, merchants, publishers, mine operators, financiers and professional ;. men crowded the restaurant when the raid was made. - : • ~ These are the first arrests for-smoking in a public . place. The law : ' has been effective in the State for two years. That' particular section pertaining •to smoking in restaurants reads as follows:— ~ : " It shall be a misdemeanour for any pei/iUii to smoke cigars, cigarettes or*, tobacco in any enclosed public place within the State of Utah except in extra rooms, compartments or : coaches specially provided for. smoking purposes. The term ' enclosed ; public places 'as here used shall be construed to mean the. dining rooms in hotels, restaurants, cafes and cafeterias, theatres, passenger elevators, street cars,' interurban . and .railway and passenger coaches,' motor and other passenger vehicles employed'as common' carriers, railway station waiting rooms, barber shops/ county and city buildlings^ ; ■ _.~? .. \ , .. .
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18380, 21 April 1923, Page 2 (Supplement)
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