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Hotel Showed Due Diligence in Enforcing No Smoking Law

A hotel was charged with violating the city’s no-smoking law after several hotel patrons and employees were seen smoking in prohibited areas. The hotel argued that it had exercised due diligence and noted the steps it had taken to enforce the no-smoking law: Giving employees copies of the law, staging mock exercises where employees had to demonstrate how they would handle someone smoking in a prohibited area, posting notices about the law throughout the hotel and firing one employee for twice violating the hotel’s no-smoking policy. The court ruled that the hotel had exercised due diligence and dismissed the prosecution [The City of Whitehorse v. 6670 Yukon Ltd. (The Capital Hotel), [2006] YKTC 83 (CanLII) Sept. 8, 2006].

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