Steve Peterman, owner of Peterman’s Shamrock on St Joe Avenue, is hoping to repeal the current anti-smoking ordinances and replace them with a new one that would allow establishments serving adults to choose whether to go smoke-free.
That petition was filed last week. Peterman would need 2,568 certified signatures to force additional action on his proposal.
Buchanan County Clerk Mary Baack-Garvey says her office is going over the petition, and should be done validating the signatures by later this week or early next week.
Peterman was the named plaintiff in a failed lawsuit claiming the current ordinances violate the state constitution.