09 LC 21
0339S
The
Senate Urban Affairs Committee offered the following substitute to SB
89:
A
BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
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
bottled
water 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laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act are repealed.