File Code: Motor Vehicles - Drunk Driving
Prior Year Introduction As: SB 315/95 - JPR
Crossfiled with: SENATE BILL 338
- Sponsored By:
-
Delegates Petzold, Beck, Heller, Hutchins, Mandel, Menes, and Perry
- Entitled:
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Vehicle Laws - Alcoholic Beverages - Open Containers
Prohibiting a person from keeping a bottle, can, or other container in
the passenger compartment of a motor vehicle while that vehicle is on
a highway if that bottle, can, or container contains alcohol and is or
has had its seal broken or its contents partially removed; providing
that the Act does not prohibit a person other than the driver from
possessing the bottle, can, or other container in a bus, Class B (for
hire) vehicle, or the living quarters of a mobile home; setting
penalties; etc.
House Action
- 2/2
- First Reading Judiciary
- 2/7
- Hearing 3/7 at 1:00 p.m.
- 3/11
- Unfavorable Report by Judiciary
Senate Action
- No Action
- Sponsored by:
- Delegate Carol Stoker Petzold, District 19
- Delegate Raymond Beck, District 39
- Delegate Henry B. Heller, District 19
- Delegate Thomas E. Hutchins, District 28
- Delegate Adrienne Mandel, District 19
- Delegate Pauline H. Menes, District 21
- Delegate Marsha G. Perry, District 33
- Bill indexed under the following Subjects:
- ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES -see also- DRUNK AND DRUGGED DRIVING
- BEVERAGE CONTAINERS
- MOTOR VEHICLES - GENERAL -see also- ABANDONED VEHICLES
- PENALTIES
- Bill affects the following Statutes:
- Transportation
- (
21-905 ,
27-101
)
- Bill Text:
- First Reading (PDF),
Third Reading, Enrolled
- Fiscal Note:
Available (PDF)
Amendments:
None available
