HB 525 – AS INTRODUCED
2009 SESSION
03/01
HOUSE BILL 525
AN ACT prohibiting smoking in vehicles when child passenger restraints are required.
SPONSORS: Rep. Griffin, Rock 4; Rep. R. Elliott, Rock 4; Rep. Pilliod, Belk 5; Rep. Gile, Merr 10; Rep. Schmidt, Straf 4
This bill prohibits smoking in vehicles when child passenger restraints are required.
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Explanation: Matter added to current law appears in bold italics.
Matter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]
Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
09-0154
03/01
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Nine
AN ACT prohibiting smoking in vehicles when child passenger restraints are required.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 New Section; Special Rules of the Road; Smoking Prohibited. Amend RSA 265 by inserting after section 107-a the following new section:
265:107-b Smoking Prohibited. No person shall smoke in a motor vehicle at any time when the operation of the motor vehicle is subject to the child passenger restraint requirements of RSA 265:107-a. The driver of the motor vehicle in which a person is smoking in violation of this section shall be subject to the same penalties as a driver violating the provisions of RSA 265:107-a.
2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect January 1, 2010.