FIRST REGULAR SESSION

HOUSE BILL NO. 287

92ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY

INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVES ROARK, COOPER (120) AND HUNTER (Co-sponsors).

         Read 1^st time January 23, 2003, and copies ordered printed.

STEPHEN S. DAVIS, Chief Clerk

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AN ACT

To repeal section 574.075, RSMo, and to enact in lieu thereof one new section relating to drunkenness or drinking in certain public places, with a penalty provision.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Missouri, as follows:

            Section A. Section 574.075, RSMo, is repealed and one new section enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as section 574.075, to read as follows:

            574.075. It shall be unlawful for any person in this state to enter any schoolhouse or church house in which there is an assemblage of people, met for a lawful purpose, or any courthouse, in a drunken or intoxicated [and] or disorderly condition, or to drink or offer to drink any intoxicating liquors in the presence of such assembly of people, or in any courthouse within this state and any person or persons so doing shall be guilty of a misdemeanor; unless, however, the circuit court has by local rule authorized law library associations to conduct social events after business hours in any courthouse.