The Board of Commissioners approved the first reading of a change to the county’s smoking ordinance adding the line “no smoking is allowed in any parks operated by the Spalding County Parks & Recreation Department or in the Park at Sixth,” which is operated by the Griffin Main Street Program, but is owned by Spalding County.
County Attorney Jim Fortune explained at Monday’s meeting, the change extends the county’s current prohibition of smoking in county-owned buildings and county-owned vehicles to include any park operated by county Parks & Recreation and the Park at Sixth. People can smoke 25 feet away from the entrance of a county-owned building but once approved, not in the parks at all.
(For the complete story, see tomorrow's print edition.)
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