Bill Text: MO HB395 | 2011 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Creates the crime of operating a motorized vessel with excessive blood alcohol content when a person operates a motorized vessel on any navigable waterway with a blood alcohol content of .08 of 1% or more

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-02-28 - Public Hearing Completed (H) [HB395 Detail]

Download: Missouri-2011-HB395-Introduced.html

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FIRST REGULAR SESSION

HOUSE BILL NO. 395

96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVES COOKSON (Sponsor), FITZWATER, WELLS, ROWLAND, PHILLIPS, WRIGHT, BAHR, FRANZ AND DENISON (Co-sponsors).

1127L.01I                                                                                                                                                  D. ADAM CRUMBLISS, Chief Clerk

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AN ACT

To repeal section 306.112, RSMo, and to enact in lieu thereof one new section relating to operating a motorized vessel with excessive blood alcohol content, with penalty provisions.

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Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Missouri, as follows:

            Section A. Section 306.112, RSMo, is repealed and one new section enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as section 306.112, to read as follows:

            306.112. 1. A person commits the crime of operating a vessel with excessive blood alcohol content if such person operates a vessel on the Mississippi River, Missouri River or the lakes of this state with eight-hundredths of one percent or more by weight of alcohol in such person's blood.

            2. A person commits the crime of operating a motorized vessel with excessive blood alcohol content if such person operates a motorized vessel on any navigable river or waterway of this state with eight-hundredths of one percent or more by weight of alcohol in such person's blood.

            3. As used in this section, percent by weight of alcohol in the blood shall be based upon grams of alcohol per one hundred milliliters of blood and may be shown by chemical analysis of the person's blood, breath, urine, or saliva.

            [3.] 4. Operating a vessel with excessive blood alcohol content is a class B misdemeanor. Operating a motorized vessel with excessive blood alcohol content is a class B misdemeanor.

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