My December 30, 2023, Brainstorming Letter for Utah State Legislature House Majority Leader Mike Schultz:

 I will be very pleased if this follow-up letter I wrote and sent today to Utah House Majority Leader Mike Schultz  helps to promote dialogue about these topics:

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Sent: Sat, Dec 30, 2023 at 11:17 PM

Subject: Re: Booze on the Ballot: Utah dry town mulls allowing alcohol | PBS News

December 30, 2023

Dear Utah House of Representatives Majority Leader Mike Schultz,

Thank you again for helpfully inviting me earlier  this month  to send you e-mail letters about concerns of mine relating to Utah.

One of my concerns is that I sense that possibly state law in Utah might not currently require a local or state law enforcement agency with jurisdiction to consistently charge a snow skier in Utah  who is intoxicated  with "'Driving' While  Intoxicated" or "'Driving' Under the Influence". 

I am specifically  referring to a scenario in which that drunken skier in a blameworthy manner had caused an accident by crashing  into another skier or a pedestrian on the slopes of a ski resort in Utah.

If a MOTORIST in Utah who is intoxicated crashes into another motorist in our state or into a pedestrian in our state, that motorist gets promptly ARRESTED by a sheriff's deputy, a police officer, or a Utah DPS trooper.

As you of course know, skiing is a major and frequent  form of transportation here  in Utah. 

Do you believe that state law in Utah should impose tougher  criminal-law penalties than at present  on skiers under the influence of alcohol who crash into another skier or into  a pedestrian?

If so, do you support the establishment of a Utah DPS Ski Patrol or Utah DPS  Snowmobile Patrol at ski resorts who are themselves authorized to promptly  arrest "'Reckless Driving' Skiers" or injurious Skiers who are determined by the Utah DPS to have been at fault in a collision with another skier?

Do you also support establishment of a small  Utah DPS  crime-evidence  urine and  blood testing laboratory near one or more of the Ski Resorts in our state?

Utah House Majority Leader Schultz, I also need to ask you whether you support a revision of state law here in Utah that specifically invites and authorizes any city or town or village or  county or multi-county region here  in Utah to hold a local election in which  voters there choose to classify or re-classify their city,  town, village, county, or multi-county region  as a municipality, village, county, or region of Utah  in which no sale or production or possession or consumption of drinking alcohol is permitted anywhere in that municipality, village, county, or multi-county  region  of Utah.

I would like to call your attention to the following  online link to a November 5, 2017, copyrighted  "Public Broadcasting Service" report focused on Utah. It is the type of report for which an update news story could be extremely helpful in January 2024 here in Utah.

House Majority Leader Schultz, Best Wishes to you  and your other conscientous and idealistic colleagues in the Utah House of Representatives  in 2024.

Sincerely,

John Kevin McMillan, the single adult white teetotaling male founder of the permanently-alcohol-free and always-tobacco-free, non-proselytizing and strictly one-member (only me) politely non-Christian and public-safety-minded, factually focused  "Progressive Prohibitionist Religion".

My solo-occupancy rental-apartment unit home address ever since June 1, 2022:

535 South 200 East, Apt. 912, Ninth Floor,  Salt Lake City, UT 84111.

My cell phone. (512) 993-7305.

My home phone: (801) 355-0850.

My Date of Birth: 4-27-1957. My Place of Birth: Lincoln, Nebraska.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/amp/nation/booze-on-the-ballot-utah-dry-town-mulls-allowing-alcohol