Bill Text: VA HB132 | 2020 | Regular Session | Prefiled
Bill Title: Profane swearing in public; removes the crime from Code.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-22 - Incorporated by Courts of Justice [HB132 Detail]
Download: Virginia-2020-HB132-Prefiled.html
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That §18.2-388 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:
§18.2-388. Intoxication in public; penalty; transportation of public inebriates to detoxification center.
If any person profanely curses or
swears or is intoxicated in public, whether such
intoxication results from alcohol, narcotic drug.
or other intoxicant or drug of whatever nature, he shall
be deemed is
guilty of a Class 4 misdemeanor. In any area in which there is located a
court-approved detoxification center, a
law-enforcement officer may authorize the transportation, by police or
otherwise, of public inebriates to such detoxification center in lieu of
arrest; however, no person shall be involuntarily detained in such center.
