The Chandler City Council will likely have at least two recommendations to choose from when it considers a breastfeeding ordinance later this month.
Members of the city’s breast-feeding task force on Thursday asked for another meeting next week to come up with their own ordinance that will differ from a version written by City Attorney Michael House.
In essence, House’s version allows a mother to breast-feed anywhere she’s already entitled to be. But it also expressly protects business owners’ rights to prohibit particular activities, such as breast-feeding.
House said he believes his version goes as far as a city government can go until the Legislature "creates a right to breast-feed."
"It’s saying as far as we’re concerned, you can do it," but it doesn’t necessarily require a property owner to accommodate breast-feeding, House said.
Right now, he said, neither the Arizona Constitution nor state statutes address breast-feeding.
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