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Lewisville Smoking Ban Referendum (May 2010))
| Not on Ballot |
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| This measure was not put on an election ballot |
There was a petition drive for a Lewisville Smoking Ban Referendum to be on the May 8 ballot in Denton County for voters in the city of Lewisville.
Residents who were campaigning for this needed to collect 2,247 signatures for city residents within 45 days in order to qualify the referendum for the May ballot. Residents decided to take the issue up on their own since several attempts to get the city council to pass legislature that would tighten smoking bans have all failed. The same residents advocating the ban then tried to voluntarily get restaurants to be smoke free, but that never got off the ground. They saw this as their last choice to push Lewisville in line with other major Texas cities that have banned indoor smoking. Current law prohibits smoking in museums and public meeting places and makes it that non smoking sections must be in restaurants, but the residents advocating this referendum wanted all indoor smoking banned and 10 percent of hotel rooms only for smoking.[1]
Petitioners failed to gather the needed amount of signatures, so this measure did not appear on the May ballot. They were only bale to collect around a third of the needed amount. Petition gatherers blamed the weather and holiday season for the low turnout at event held. But they are going to try again later in the year, hopefully with better results.[2]
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