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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: JohnM who wrote (27273)8/29/2006 10:48:13 AM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 541863
 
Banning smoking in specific outdoor locations is different, and more reasonable, than banning smoking in general outdoors in a whole town or even a larger jurisdiction.

In the case of the library presumably outside their door is library property. No general law is needed, just library rules about its own property. A library is "public" in the sense that its open to the public, and probably in the sense that it is publicly owned, but it isn't public to the same extent as a normal street corner. It should be able to apply rules against unacceptable behavior that would fall short of what would get your arrested or fined on a street corner.
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