Amid the sounds of crying babies and fidgety toddlers, the Breast-feeding Task Force met for a second time last week to come together on a recommendation to take to the City Council.
The sticking points among the seven appointees, and a vocal audience, centered around the city's inability to trump the state's indecent exposure statute and a business owner's right to ask its patrons to leave.
While audience members and some task force members leaned more toward giving a mother the right to breast-feed, city attorney Mike House said that can only come from the state legislature.
"This represents the maximum the city of Chandler could do," Mr. House said, referring to a draft ordinance passed out to the task force members and audience.
The draft ordinance has three sections.
The first one states a mother can breast-feed their baby in any location where the mother and child are authorized to be.
The other two sections try to protect the city from state indecent exposure laws and give private property owners the right to regulate conduct on their premises.
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