LIMA, OH (WLIO) - Ordinance 205-22, which designates city parks and outdoor recreational facilities in Lima as smoke and vape-free, went before Lima City Council Monday Evening following a second reading.
During their regular Monday session, council members did not act on the ordinance and placed it for a third reading. Additionally, the Public Works Committee will meet next week to discuss recommendations for the ordinance. Following Monday's council meeting, Your Hometown Stations caught up with Lima City Council President John Nixon on his thoughts on this legislation.
"Banning it is a real overreach of restriction. When you're not going to actually be able to enforce it, you are going to simply create more confusion. If you are not going to enforce it, other than to say you're going to ask people to leave the park, we do not have the manpower to enforce it anyway, and people are then going to be upset because it isn't being enforced, and it's just going to become a quagmire," says John Nixon, President, Lima City Council.
Lima City Council will discuss the city park smoke and vape-free ordinance again at their next meeting on Monday, October 24th.
