Bill Text: CT SB01001 | 2017 | General Assembly | Introduced

Connecticut Senate Bill 1001 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Bill Title: An Act Prohibiting Smoking On Beaches In State Parks.

Spectrum: Committee Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-05-24 - Matter Pass Retained [SB01001 Detail]

Download: Connecticut-2017-SB01001-Introduced.html


General Assembly		*Raised Bill No. 1001*
*January Session, 2017*		LCO No. 4532
		04532_______ENV
Referred to Committee on ENVIRONMENT
Introduced by:
(ENV)

AN ACT PROHIBITING SMOKING IN STATE PARKS.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:

Section 1. (NEW) (Effective July 1, 2017) (a) No person shall engage in the act of smoking in any state park.

(b) The Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection may enforce the provisions of this section and issue a warning for any first violation of the provisions of this section and establish a fine for any second or subsequent violation of the provisions of this section.

(c) For purposes of this section, "smoking" means inhaling, exhaling, burning, carrying or otherwise possessing any lighted cigarette, cigar, pipe or any other object or device of any form that contains lighted tobacco or any other smoking product.


This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections:
Section 1	July 1, 2017	New section

Statement of Purpose:

To prohibit smoking in state parks.

[Proposed deletions are enclosed in brackets. Proposed additions are indicated by underline, except that when the entire text of a bill or resolution or a section of a bill or resolution is new, it is not underlined.]