Delaware General Assembly


CHAPTER 66

FORMERLY

BILL NO. 65

AN ACT TO AMEND SUBCHAPTER VII OF CHAPTER 5, TITLE 11, DELAWARE CODE, RELATING TO THE BANNING OF SMOKING ON CERTAIN PUBLIC CONVEYANCES.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Delaware [two-thirds of all the members of each House thereof concurring therein]:

Section 1. Amend Subchapter VII of Chapter 5, Title 11, Delaware Code, by adding thereto a new section to be designated as §1326 which shall read as follows:

§1326 Smoking on trolleys and buses; jurisdiction

(a) Whoever in any trackless trolley coach, or gasoline or diesel-engine propelled bus being used as a public conveyance for carrying passengers within this State, smokes or carries a lighted cigarette, cigar or pipe shall be fined not less than $5.00 nor more than $25.00.

(b) Justices of the Peace shall have jurisdiction of offenses under this section."

Approved May 16, 1975.