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1995 SESSION

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SB 782 Alcoholic beverages; possession in open container.

Introduced by: Robert L. Calhoun | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles

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Alcoholic beverage control; local ordinances; arrests. Expands the areas, including parking lots and motor vehicles, where a locality, by ordinance, may regulate or prohibit the possession of opened alcoholic beverage containers. The bill also allows localities which have adopted an ordinance to authorize their law-enforcement officers to make an arrest without a warrant for violation of such ordinance where the violation is not committed in the officer's presence, if there is probable cause for the arrest based on a reasonable complaint from any person who observed the violation.


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