Public Safety

KAYSVILLE — Kaysville Power Company crews were installing a new pole when a machine cut into a small residential gas line.

The incident happened at 11:30 a.m. Friday at 1760 W. Phillips St., said Kaysville Fire Chief Brett Larkin.

Emergency crews were called as a precaution, Larkin said. Questar crews repaired the line.

Larkin said no one was evacuated, but residents were told about the gas leak.

“It was just a small cut,” Larkin said.

Larkin said the area had been marked for gas lines before the digging, but the markers were not in the correct area.

WASHINGTON -- The head of Delta Air Lines on Friday joined the growing opposition to the Transportation Security Administration's new policy allowing passengers to carry small knives onto planes.

SALT LAKE CITY — Davis County-driven legislation forcing suppliers to provide documentation of the products used to fluoridate county water systems is headed to the governor’s desk.

The Senate voted 23-2 on Thursday to approve HB 72, sponsored by Rep. Roger Barrus, R-Centerville.

Dubbed the Safe Water Disclosure Act, the legislation was run at the request of Davis County Attorney Troy Rawlings after he was unable to get all of the documentation from a chemical supplier to provide a paper trail showing it meets federal guidelines.

SALT LAKE CITY — The state’s list of concealed permit holders would be kept private, especially from the federal government, under legislation that cleared a House committee Tuesday.

HB 317, sponsored by Rep. Jacob Anderegg, R-Orem, would make it a class A misdemeanor to disclose information of who has a concealed weapons permit. The original measure called for the offense to be a third-degree felony, but the committee amended the penalty portion.

WOODS CROSS — The city is hosting three public open houses to educate residents and receive their input on how the city is to contend with four of its five groundwater wells containing PCE, an industrial contaminant.

The open houses, from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. Wednesday; 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday; and 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. March 13, will be at the Woods Cross Municipal Building, 1555 S. 800 West.

The same information will be made available at each open house, officials said.

SALT LAKE CITY — A local lawmaker’s bill to increase the fines for failing to secure a load, or for littering on a highway, is moving forward for further consideration.

A House committee gave a favorable recommendation Monday to HB 328, sponsored by Rep. Richard Greenwood, R-Roy.

The bill would make the fine for littering at least $100 for the first offense and no less than $250 for a second offense within three years. It would also give a judge the ability to require of the offender at least eight hours of cleanup time along the highways.

SALT LAKE CITY — The gun battles of this legislative session may come down to the question of state versus federal control.

Utahns enjoy broader firearms protection than most states provide, thanks to a clause in the state constitution that goes beyond guaranteeing the right to bear arms and also secures that right for the “security, and defense of self, family and others.”

That control is unlikely to be changed significantly this legislative session, say a number of lawmakers. But what if the federal government intervenes with new gun-control laws?

Therein would lie a major battle.