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• adult entertainment and night club establishments, spacing between alcohol sales establishments and schools, religious facilities; and residences, and hours of operation for certain uses that operate near single family residences; • minors, including those that prohibit the sale of tobacco products to persons under 18 years of age; • consumer protection and unfair/deceptive practices, including regulations on false/misleading advertising, food product packaging/labeling, price misrepresentation, maximum non-consent tow rates, and non-discrimination in tipping; • business licensing, including regulations for pain management clinics that require fingerprinting and background checks for the protection of the public; • notice, disclosure, and signage requirements, including those relating to gasoline prices, rental car agencies, alcoholic beverages, check cashing fees; • wage theft; • the prevention of unreasonable loud noises; • historic preservation, including regulations that preserve historic districts and draw tourism; • art in public places for the benefit of the community; • emergency vehicles, taxis, limousines, jitneys, and transportation network companies; • commercial signage and signage on commercial buildings; • placement and merchandising of tobacco products and e-cigarettes; and • the environment, including regulations that prevent sanitary nuisances, such as untreated or improperly treated human waste, garbage, and dead animals. WHEREAS, Senate Bill 1158 takes a similarly broad sweep to House Bill 17 and provides that unless otherwise expressly authorized by special or general law, after January 1, 2017 local governments would be precluded from enacting regulations that: • ban the sale of good or service; • impose a penalty on the sale of a good or service; • require employer to pay any or all of its employees a wage rate not otherwise required under a special, general, or federal law, or • interfere with the regulation of commerce, trade, or labor outside the territorial boundaries of a local government, private sector investment, business competitiveness, productivity, or innovation within the county or outside its territorial boundaries; and WHEREAS, under the language above Senate Bill 1158 could potentially prevent local governments from enacting or amending regulations that encourage local and regional economic development , protect the distinguishing aesthetics and other features of local areas that attract tourists, and prevent discrimination; and WHEREAS, local zoning authority is a fundamental power through which local communities regulate where industrial, commercial, residential, and other uses should be located Page 2 of 4 Reso opposing SB 1158 and HB 17