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      Sec. 53-198. Smoking in motor buses, railroad cars and school buses. 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 ten to twenty-five dollars; P.A. 85-136 changed the penalty for a violation of provisions of section from a fine of not more than twenty-five dollars to an infraction.