78B-6-1105 - Tobacco smoke -- Legislative intent. - Utah Statutes

78B-6-1105. Tobacco smoke -- Legislative intent.
(1) The Legislature finds:
(a) the federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has determined thatenvironmental tobacco smoke is a Group A carcinogen, in the same category as othercancer-causing chemicals such as asbestos;
(b) the EPA has determined that there is no acceptable level of exposure to Class Acarcinogens; and
(c) the EPA has determined that exposure to environmental tobacco smoke also causesan increase in respiratory diseases and disorders among exposed persons.
(2) The Legislature finds that environmental tobacco smoke generated in a rental orcondominium unit may drift into other units, exposing the occupants of those units to tobaccosmoke, and that standard construction practices are not effective in preventing this drift oftobacco smoke.
(3) The Legislature further finds that persons who desire to not be exposed to driftingenvironmental tobacco smoke should be able to determine in advance of entering into a rental,lease, or purchase agreement whether the subject unit may be exposed to environmental tobaccosmoke.

Renumbered and Amended by Chapter 3, 2008 General Session