While smoking bans are becoming more prevalent across the U.S., there is one thing that I don't like about it that needs to be talked about. It's the requirement by some commissions that business owners must enforce the laws.
A recent ban in Parsons, Kansas, has brought this upon a local truck stop operator. Russell McKee, co-owner of Stockyard Travel Plaza, told commissioners "I don't have permission to write a speeding ticket. I shouldn't have to enforce this law."
One city commissioner, Tom Shaw, who introduced the smoking ban, said that he understood McKee's concerns about being required to enforce the ban, but then added that he was open to suggestions to how it could be done. He added later that the city obviously couldn't post police officers in the bars and stores.
To me, if local, regional or state governments want to put forth laws, then they better have a way of enforcing it, or don't bring it up in the first place.
Essentially they are giving business owners legal responsibilities that go way beyond anything someone in business should have to have. To make business owners an extension of the legal system to bring about politically correct decisions that can't be enforced by legal authorities shouldn't be allowed.
Do you think that managers and business owners should be forced to enforce laws?
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