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Orange County Health Director, Colleen Bridger, presented the following PowerPoint <br /> Presentation: <br /> Orange County Board of Health <br /> Overview of the Rule <br /> Where is smoking prohibited? <br /> • Indoors <br /> - Where the public is invited or allowed <br /> - Regardless of public or private business ownership <br /> • Outside <br /> ■ Municipal or County owned/controlled property <br /> - Sidewalks <br /> - Parks and Recreation facilities <br /> - Bus Stops <br /> Overview of the Rule <br /> Where is smoking not regulated by the rule? <br /> Overview of the Rule <br /> Enforcement— Effective July 1, 2013 <br /> Smoke-free public places <br /> RECENT history <br /> 2009 <br /> • House Bill 2 (HB2) passes <br /> • November - TRU students present Tobacco-Free Public Places idea to the <br /> Board of Health <br /> 2010 <br /> • January 2 - HB2 goes into effect as the NC Smoke-Free Restaurants and Bars <br /> Law <br /> 2011 <br /> • February— UNC School of Government Webinars on Local Authority <br /> • April — Board of Health and Intergovernmental Park Workgroup Presentations <br /> • November— Orange County Tobacco Control Workgroup Formed <br /> 2012 <br /> • February—Workgroup recommends BOH adopt Tobacco-Free Public Places <br /> • June — BOH hears presentations by NC Tobacco Prevention and Control <br /> Branch and Gayle Harris, Durham County Health Director. BOH adopts <br /> Strategic Plan to review current smoking ban policies for expansion <br /> • August - BOH Tobacco Subcommittee recommends Tobacco-Free public places <br /> to BOH. BOH discusses and decides to limit consideration to Smoke Free public <br /> places only. <br />