I was stunned today to read today how Bountiful City Attorney Russell Mahan sent letters to four e-cigarette shops telling them on January 1st, they will no longer have a business license and must cease operations. Why may you ask, because apparently HB95 changed the law regarding tobacco specialty shops and city managers and attorney's in Bountiful don't follow the news with regards to new laws and policies.
According to Tribune reporter Pamela Manson Bountiful's City Manager Gary Hill says they didn't know about the law after issuing licenses to the four locations for 2013. Apparently the Davis County Health Department was so concerned about these shops for their amazing ability to give tobacco users an alternative to smoking actually cancer killing cigarettes and found these four locations in violation of law that Bountiful is apparently clueless about. Assuming that because of the holidays everyone took the month of December off, city planners finally got around to issuing the letters with only few days left in the month.
With all four business looking at major losses and potential bankruptcy you can imagine how this is going to play out for Bountiful City. Vapor Dreams, Vapor R Us, Utah Vapors, and Urban Vapor are getting together to discuss options this week. Good luck team fighting this idiotic mismanagement of Bountiful City. Most of them have long term leases and spent thousands in renovations. Regardless if the HB95 is a good law, city officials are payed big bucks to know what laws need to be followed and help the community grow and instead they have crushed four employers and their families overnight.
I think it might be time for a Bountiful City to take some inservice days, so they can bone up on the laws from 2 years ago and make sure they are compliant.
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