In 2017, New York state expanded the Clean Indoor Air Act to ban smoking in virtually all buildings.
This meant that everyone would be protected from secondhand smoke inside their places of employment and the businesses they patronize. While some establishments may continue to authorize smoking, such as hotels, smoking is prohibiting in most others.
This safeguards people while they are inside these buildings. But restrictions for smoking outside are up to those overseeing these structures.
Lewis County legislators considered one problem theyâd like to avoid based on another recently passed state law. New York now permits the recreational use of marijuana, so what happens if people want to light up a joint outside a county-owned building?
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LOWVILLE â Every year, Friends of Lewis County Hospice presents a giant symbolic check for a significant amount of money to Lewis County Health System in support of the unique care people receive at the end of their lives through Hospice.
On Friday, that check was for $125,000.
The financial relationship between Friends and Hospice is unique in that it is not driven strictly by the amount of money raised through donations or fundraising events and activities, but rather by the operating deficit for Hospice as shared with Friends by Health System Chief Executive Officer Gerald R. Cayer.
âWe wait for Lewis County hospital who goes over finances for the Hospice program and then the (Friends) board decides how much to give every year,â said Friends Treasurer Linda J. Noftsier.
LOWVILLE â The prospect of someone legally smoking a joint directly in front of the county office and court building door was enough for Lewis County legislators to revisit â for the first time since 2011 â making county building campuses entirely âsmoke free.â
The five members of the Health and Human Services Legislative Committee voted unanimously on Tuesday afternoon to send a policy resolution to the entire board for a vote that would make âcounty buildings and groundsâ smoke free. The law explicitly includes the use of tobacco, e-cigarettes and marijuana.
To date, the county does not have a policy on the books about smoking on its properties.