CLEVELAND — Proposals before Cleveland’s city council would outlaw artery-clogging trans fats in restaurant food and ban smoking at public parks and within 150 feet of city buildings.

Councilman Joe Cimperman told The (Cleveland) Plain Dealer newspaper the measures he introduced Monday would back up a health campaign launched by four Cleveland hospitals and Mayor Frank Jackson. “Healthy Cleveland” began in February toward making the city the healthiest in the country.

A spokeswoman for the mayor said the proposed ordinances would boost the campaign.

Cimperman said some critics who’d call the legislation too intrusive said the same thing about laws requiring seat belt use in cars.

Violations of the smoking restrictions would bring fines of up to $250. The trans fats ban would be similar to one enacted in New York.