Bill Text: CT HB06285 | 2015 | General Assembly | Comm Sub

Connecticut House Bill 6285 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: An Act Concerning Smoking In Motor Vehicles.

Spectrum: Committee Bill

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2015-05-31 - Senate Calendar Number 631 [HB06285 Detail]

Download: Connecticut-2015-HB06285-Comm_Sub.html

General Assembly		*Substitute Bill No. 6285*
*January Session, 2015*		_____HB06285PH____033115____

AN ACT CONCERNING SMOKING IN MOTOR VEHICLES.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:

Section 1. (NEW) (Effective from passage) (a) As used in this section, "smoke" or "smoking" means the lighting or carrying of a lighted cigarette, cigar, pipe or similar device.

(b) No person shall smoke in a motor vehicle, as defined in section 14-1 of the general statutes, when a child who is using or required to use a child restraint system under subsection (d) of section 14-100a of the general statutes is present in such vehicle.

(c) Any person who violates any provision of subsection (b) of this section shall, for a first offense, be issued a written warning for such violation, and for any subsequent offense, shall have committed an infraction.

(d) Smoking in a motor vehicle in violation of this section shall not constitute probable cause for a law enforcement official to conduct a search of such vehicle and its contents.