1 | The Criminal Justice Committee recommends the following: |
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3 | Council/Committee Substitute |
4 | Remove the entire bill and insert: |
5 | A bill to be entitled |
6 | An act relating to alcoholic beverages; creating s. |
7 | 562.61, F.S.; providing a definition of the term "alcohol |
8 | vaporizing device"; prohibiting the sale, offer for sale, |
9 | purchase, or use of machines or devices which vaporize |
10 | alcohol; providing penalties; providing a fine; providing |
11 | an effective date. |
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13 | Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: |
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15 | Section 1. Section 562.61, Florida Statutes, is created to |
16 | read: |
17 | 562.61 Sale, offer for sale, purchase, or use of alcohol |
18 | vaporizing devices prohibited.-- |
19 | (1) For purposes of this section, the term "alcohol |
20 | vaporizing device" means any device, machine, or process which |
21 | mixes spirits, liquor, or other alcohol products with pure |
22 | oxygen or other gas to produce a vaporized product for the |
23 | purpose of consumption by inhalation. |
24 | (2) A person may not sell, offer for sale, purchase, or |
25 | use an alcohol vaporizing device. |
26 | (3)(a) Any person who violates this section by selling or |
27 | offering for sale an alcohol vaporizing device commits a |
28 | misdemeanor of the first degree, punishable as provided in s. |
29 | 775.082 or s. 775.083. Any person who violates this section by |
30 | selling or offering for sale an alcohol vaporizing device after |
31 | having been previously convicted of such an offense within the |
32 | past 5 years commits a felony of the third degree, punishable as |
33 | provided in s. 775.082 or s. 775.083. |
34 | (b) Any person who violates this section by purchasing or |
35 | using an alcohol vaporizing device shall be subject to a fine of |
36 | $250. |
37 | Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2006. |