<span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: ‘Lucida Sans’;" class="R~sep~ACopyBody">What is the law on public restrooms? Do businesses in Lake Charles have to have them?</span>

<span class="R~sep~ACopyBody">Yes, said Matt Young, Lake Charles city spokesman.</span>

<span class="R~sep~ACopyBody">“All public buildings are required to provide public restroom facilities in the city of Lake Charles,” he wrote in an email.</span>

<span class="R~sep~ACopyBody">“That is not to say that they do not have the right to designate ‘private’ restroom facilities as long as they are able to meet the minimum requirements for public restrooms.”</span>

<span class="R~sep~ACopyBody">Young referred The Informer to city code Section 6-364, which applies to public restrooms in commercial buildings.</span>

<span class="R~sep~ACopyBody">“Toilet facilities shall be provided in all occupancies for each sex, except one family living units,” reads the provision, titled “Toilet facilities.”</span>

<span class="R~sep~ACopyBody">“The number provided for each sex shall be based on the maximum number of persons of that sex that may be expected to use such building at any one time. Walls and floors of all public restrooms shall be lined with nonabsorbent material to a height of four feet above the floor.”</span>

<span class="R~sep~ACopyBody">Young said the International Plumbing Code doesn’t require updates of facilities in existing structures that have seen no change in occupancy so long as the plumbing was “lawfully in existence at the time of the adoption of this code.”</span>

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<span style="font-weight: bold;" class="R~sep~ACopyEditors~sep~endnote">Online:</span> <span class="R~sep~ACopyEditors~sep~endnote">www.cityoflakecharles.com.</span>

<span class="R~sep~AHeadBrief">Campaigns cover some travel costs</span>

<span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: ‘Lucida Sans’;" class="R~sep~ACopyBody">Is it legal for Clinton and Obama to fly around to different campaign stops using Air Force One?</span>

<span class="R~sep~ACopyBody">Yes.</span>

<span class="R~sep~ACopyBody">As The Informer has noted before — first in 2002 when President George W. Bush stumped for brother Jeb in Florida — Air Force One may be used to shuttle the chief executive to campaign events.</span>

<span class="R~sep~ACopyBody">But the campaigns involved must reimburse the federal government for costs associated with other-than-presidential business.</span>

<span class="R~sep~ACopyBody">From Politifact.com:</span>

<span class="R~sep~ACopyInfoBox">“The amount is the price of chartering a 737, which is a bit over $11,000 an hour, according to the Washington Post. Prior to 2010, the required reimbursement was nothing more than the cost of a first-class ticket on a commercial airline.</span>

<span class="R~sep~ACopyInfoBox">“When you have someone traveling on behalf of a campaign, such as Clinton and any staffers who might be accompanying her, the accounting can get even more complicated.</span>

<span class="R~sep~ACopyInfoBox">“But how it’s calculated by the White House Airlift Operations office isn’t known. The government does not release details of how it figures such costs, and that’s been a secret going back to the 1970s, according to CNN.”</span>

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