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17104774D
SENATE BILL NO. SB 1223
AMENDMENT IN THE NATURE OF A SUBSTITUTE
(Proposed by the Senate Committee on Transportation
on January 25, 2017)
(Patron Prior to Substitute--Senator Barker)
A BILL to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered 46.2-905.1, relating to riding bicycle or electric power-assisted bicycle while intoxicated; penalty.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That the Code of Virginia is amended by adding a section numbered 46.2-905.1 as follows:

§ 46.2-905.1. Riding bicycle or electric power-assisted bicycle while intoxicated; penalty.

Any person operating a bicycle or electric power-assisted bicycle on a highway while intoxicated, whether willfully or not, and whether such intoxication results from self-administered alcohol or other drug of whatever nature, is guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor.