09
SB89/AP
Senate
Bill 89
By:
Senators Butler of the 55th, Williams of the 19th, Brown of the 26th, Mullis of
the 53rd, Stoner of the 6th and others
AS
PASSED
AN
ACT
To
amend Code Section 16-12-120 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating
to acts prohibited in public transit buses and rapid rail cars or stations, so
as to allow the consumption of food and beverages in a rapid rail station or
intermodal bus station; to provide for related matters; to provide for an
effective date; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.
BE
IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF GEORGIA:
SECTION
1.
Code
Section 16-12-120 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to acts
prohibited in public transit buses and rapid rail cars or stations, is amended
by revising paragraph (4) of subsection (a) as follows:
"(4)
Consumes food or beverage or possesses any open food or beverage container,
provided that this paragraph shall not apply to resealable beverages in
resealable plastic containers, to an operator of a public transit bus at an
authorized layover point, or to a person providing food or beverage to any child
under age five; provided, however, that nothing in this paragraph shall apply to
a rapid rail station or intermodal bus station, unless the public transit system
operating such station adopts a policy prohibiting food or beverages in such
station, and further that nothing in this paragraph shall preclude a public
transit system operated or funded by a county, municipality, or consolidated
government from prohibiting the consumption of any beverage in a public transit
bus;"
SECTION
2.
This
Act shall become effective on July 1, 2009.
SECTION
3.
All
laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act are repealed.