REPEAL THE BAN Columbia Restaurant/Bar Smoking Ban

Petition to Repeal the Restaurant/Bar Smoking Ban

A group of bar owners led by Betty Hamilton of the Tiger Club and Becky Reynolds of Cody's have launched a petition to repeal the recent changes to the Columbia Smoking Ordinance which banned smoking in all restaurants and bars.

When the petition receives enough qualified signatures, the city council must vote on the proposed changes to the smoking ordinance. If they decline to pass the ordinance, it automatically goes to a citywide vote during the next city election.

2276 qualified signatures from registered Columbia voters are required. Since many petition signatures get disqualified, over 3000 signatures will be needed to make sure there are enough. The goal is to obtain these and turn in the petitions by March 31.

The petition can be signed at the following Columbia locations:

Aardvarx - 17 N 10th
Black and Gold - Business Loop 70 E
Booche's - 110 S. 9th St.
Boone Tavern - 811 E Walnut St
Bull Pen Cafe - 2310 Business Loop 70 E
Campus Bar & Grille - 304 S 9th St
Charles Barber Shop - 1206 Pannell
Cody's - 2508 Paris Rd
Columbia Billiards - 114 S 9th St
Columbia Ready Mix - 2600 N Stadium Blvd
Deja Vu - 405 Cherry St
Doug Perry Towing - 601 West Blvd N
Eastside Tavern - 1016 E Broadway
Fraternal Order of Eagles - 2513 N Stadium Blvd.
Generic Nightclub - 1025a E Broadway
Grand Cru - 2600 S. Providence
KLiK's - 205 N 10th St
Laborers' International Union, Local 773 - 611 N Garth (ask for Rex Taggart)
Lou's Lounge - 1020 E Walnut
McNallys - 7 N 6th St
Missouri Fire Safety and Equipment, LLC - 705 Big Bear Blvd (Scott Manns)
Mr. Transmission - 302 Business Loop 70 W
Nostalgia Shop - 819 E Walnut St
Otto's Corner Bar and Grill - 38 N 8th St
Paradise Club - 805 Old Hwy 63N
Penguin Piano Bar - 1025 E Broadway
Quinton's Bar & Deli - 124 S 9th St
Shakespeare's Pizza - 225 S 9th
Shakespeare's Pizza - 3304 W Broadway
Shiloh Bar & Grill - 227 S 6th St
Smokes 4 Less - 21 Conley Road
Snapper's Bar - 12 S 7th St
Soco Club - 128 East Nifong Suite E
The Blue Fugue - 120 S. Ninth St
Tinder Box/Vino 100 - 2703 E. Broadway, Ste. 135 at the Broadway Shops
Tropical Liqueurs - 515 E Broadway
Tropical Liqueurs - 3805 S Providence Rd
Truman's Bar & Grill - 3304 W Broadway
Tiger Club - 1116 Business Loop 70 E
Waffle House
Willies Pub & Pool - 1109 E Broadway
Zoo Bar & Grill

If you wish to collect signatures to repeal the ban, please feel free to print out a copy of the petition and return it to Betty Hamilton at the Tiger Club, 1116 Business Loop 70 E.

Those who sign the petition must be registered voters in the City of Columbia.

Those gathering signatures on the petition must adhere to the following requirements from the City Charter for the signatures to be valid:

Section 129. Petitions.

  All petition papers comprising an initiative or referendum petition
shall be assembled and filed with the City Clerk as one instrument.
Every petition paper shall contain the full text of the measure proposed
or referred, but the signatures to the petition need not all be appended
to one paper. Each signer, after the signer's name, shall designate the
signer's residence by street and number, or other description sufficient
to identify the signer's place of residence, and the circulator of each
such paper shall make oath before an officer competent to administer
oaths that the circulator believes each signature appended to the petition
to be the genuine signature of the person whose name it purports to be,
that the circulator believes each such signer to be a legal voter, and
that all signatures were affixed in the presence of the circulator.