Wednesday, December 23 2009
By VALERIE MILLER
LAS VEGAS BUSINESS PRESS
The American Cancer Society is suing the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority and claiming a recently passed measure allowing smoking in some convention areas violates the Nevada Constitution.
The society's Great West Division and its Cancer Action Network filed the complaint against the convention authority, Nevada State Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto and public health officials over a revision to the Nevada Clean Indoor Air Act. The measure, which was added on to the anti-stalking bill Assembly Bill 309 in the closing hours of the last legislative session, violates the state constitution's single-subject rule, the society claims.
The same measure, generally allowing smoking at tobacco conventions, had failed to make it out of committee earlier in the 2009 Nevada Legislature.
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