No passenger while traveling upon, and no employee while engaged in the operation of, a common carrier motor bus, passenger railroad car or school bus, as defined in section 14-275, shall have a lighted cigarette, cigar or pipe in his possession. This section shall not apply to any special bus or to any compartment or part of a regular bus or passenger railroad car especially provided or set apart for smoking therein. Violation of any provision of this section shall be an infraction.
(1949 Rev., S. 8529; 1959, P.A. 75; P.A. 73-90; P.A. 85-136.)
History: 1959 act included school buses; P.A. 73-90 specified applicability to passenger railroad cars and raised maximum fine from $10 to $25; P.A. 85-136 changed the penalty for a violation of provisions of section from a fine of not more than $25 to an infraction.
Structure Connecticut General Statutes
Chapter 943 - Offenses Against Public Peace and Safety
Section 53-181. - Soliciting rides in motor vehicles.
Section 53-182. - Use of highways by pedestrians.
Section 53-190. - Power boats on Killingly Pond, Alexander's Lake or Lake Wononscopomuc.
Section 53-191. - Motorboats on Bolton Ponds and Gardner's Lake.
Section 53-192 and 53-193. - Speed of boats in Wethersfield Cove. Lights on boats on Highland Lake.
Section 53-194. - Preservation of Bantam Lake.
Section 53-198. - Smoking in motor buses, railroad cars and school buses.
Section 53-199. - Theaters and moving picture shows; seating capacity; standing room.
Section 53-200. - Prize fighting.
Section 53-201. - Witnessing or aiding prize fights.
Section 53-202. - Machine guns.
Section 53-202a. - Assault weapons: Definitions.
Section 53-202aa. - Firearms trafficking: Class C or B felony.
Section 53-202c. - Possession of assault weapon prohibited. Exemptions. Class D felony.
Section 53-202e. - Relinquishment of assault weapon to law enforcement agency.
Section 53-202g. - Report of loss or theft of assault weapon or other firearm. Penalty.
Section 53-202o. - Affirmative defense in prosecution for possession of specified assault weapon.
Section 53-202x. - Declaration of possession of large capacity magazine. Regulations.
Section 53-203. - Unlawful discharge of firearms.
Section 53-204. - Hunting or discharging firearm from public highway.
Section 53-205. - Loaded shotguns, rifles and muzzleloaders prohibited in vehicles and snowmobiles.
Section 53-206. - Carrying of dangerous weapons prohibited.
Section 53-206a. - Application for permit. Notice of decision to applicant.
Section 53-206e. - Limitation on sale and use of laser pointers.
Section 53-206h. - Bump stocks or other rates of fire enhancement prohibition. Notice.
Section 53-206k. - Conditions for sale or transfer of electronic defense weapons. Penalty.
Section 53-209a. - Manufacture of chemical, biological or radioactive weapon.
Section 53-210. - Refusal to relinquish telephone party line.
Section 53-212. - Use of Roentgen-rays, x-rays and radium.
Section 53-212a. - Use of fluoroscopic x-ray shoe-fitting devices prohibited.
Section 53-215. - Abandonment of refrigerator.
Section 53-215a. - Manufacture or sale of defective recapped tires.