Dorm Smoking Ban

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This is Robert Scirocco bringing you today's Law Bit.

The New Jersey legislature recently passed a law prohibiting smoking in all college dorms throughout the State. The fine for a violation of this law is $100, with the fine to be paid or the hearing held in the municipality where the school is located. The law applies to both public and private colleges, and in part this law prohibiting smoking in dormitories was inspired by the tragic Seton Hall dorm fire, in the year 2000, in which 3 students were killed and over 50 others seriously injured. New Jersey is the first State in the union to totally ban this type of behavior.

This is Robert Scirocco, Attorney at Law, Budd Lake, New Jersey, bringing you today's Law Bit.

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