Bill Text: VA HB31 | 2018 | Regular Session | Prefiled
Bill Title: Profane swearing or cursing in public; eliminates crime.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-02-12 - Left in Courts of Justice [HB31 Detail]
Download: Virginia-2018-HB31-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 Any person profanely curses or swears or who 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.