Previous Posts on this Blog have identified how the State of California (Post of 1/27/06) , Illinois and Maryland (Post of 2/10/06), Oklahoma (Post of 3/10/06), the City of Calabasas, California (Post of 3/18/06) and the District of Columbia (Post of 4/2/06) have jumped aboard the anti-smoking legislative bandwagon.
Interestingly, while some of the jurisdictions noted above (D.C., California, Illinois, Maryland) are "Blue States" which could be expected to jump on this bandwagon, the "Red State" of Oklahoma has hopped aboard as well. Now comes word that another Red State, Arkansas, is on board, too. The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reported earlier this month that the Legislature had sent to the Governor a bill that
...bans smoking in all motor vehicles carrying children who are restrained in those seats. The bill carries a $ 25 fine, which can be waived if drivers prove they have entered a smoking cessation program.
Violating the bill would be a “primary offense,” [State Rep. Bob]Mathis [D-Hot Springs and the author of the bill] said, meaning police could use violations of the bill to justify pulling someone over.
“And I’m tickled to death about it,” Mathis said.
He said he wasn’t particularly sure how police would determine the age or weight of children while trying to enforce the law.
“I don’t know that the police are going to be out there with a scale weighing anybody,” Mathis said.
A spokesman for the Little Rock Police Department said he wasn’t too sure on how the law would be enforced in the field, either.
“That’s a good question,” said Little Rock Police Sgt. Terry Hastings.
“The law enforcement of it is something that would have to be worked out. If a parents says, ‘No, they’re 7,’ that could be a problem.”
The Governor has signed the bill into law, per the The [Arkansas] Herald Leader. As I've asked before in Posts on this subject, is this really how citizens want law enforcement expending its limited resources? Apparently, in Arkansas, yes.
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