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§ 53.198

Connecticut Title 53 — Connecticut law

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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.

Source: https://www.cga.ct.gov/current/pub/chap_943.htm#sec_53-198· Version 2026