Thursday, December 4, 2008
The General Assembly is not in session.
Tracking Virginia’s General Assembly
since 2007.
HB1653: Smoking; guilty of a misdemeanor if in certain proximity to gas pumps.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That the Code of Virginia is amended by adding in Article 1 of Chapter 8 of Title 46.2 a section numbered 46.2-819.4 as follows:
§ 46.2-819.4. Smoking in proximity to gas pumps; penalty.
Any person who smokes or uses an open flame within 25 feet of a pump used to fuel motor vehicles is guilty of a Class 2 misdemeanor.
Additional Data
Explanation
This is the actual text of the bill — the legislation itself. Generally this is amending existing law, proposing the addition or removal of words from laws that are already on the books.
Words that are highlighted in yellow are
proposed additions, and words that are crossed out in
red are proposed removals.
The numbers with the § symbol before them are references to existing laws, and if you click on them they’ll take you to that part of the law on the state's website.