I guess this won't be happening in Montana.
Posted on 04/03/2005 7:26:20 AM PDT by schaketo
HELENA -- House lawmakers will once again have to decide whether to support a law banning open containers in vehicles.
The House Judiciary Committee voted 11-7 Friday to send a Senate version of the open-container ban to the House floor.
Senate Bill 80 by Sen. Gary Perry, R-Manhattan, makes it a crime to have an open beer or other alcoholic beverage in a vehicle, but masks violations of the law from drivers' records.
The House has already approved an open-container law once this session. That ban would have required violations show up on driver's records, as preferred by groups fighting drinking and driving in Montana. But that bill was tabled in a Senate committee.
On Friday, Rep. Chris Harris, D-Bozeman, tried to convince House Judiciary Committee chair Rep. Diane Rice, R-Harrison, to hold off action on Perry's bill until senators reconsidered their action on the House version of the ban.
But he failed, and soon after the committee voted to pass Perry's bill.
Harris agreed to carry it on the House floor for the senator.
An open-container ban has already won the support of a majority of House lawmakers, but there remain some who question its effectiveness.
"It's a sham," committee member Rep. George Everett, R-Kalispell, said. "You are just going to cause good hard-working people that are accountable to become criminals."
Can I take my emtpy beer cans to the recycling in my truck?
My friends and I are on our way to the recycling place with our 6 cans officer...
A likely story! Get out of the car, drop your pants and spread your legs.
I never understood the open container laws in vehicles. As one that used to have a daily 45 minute commute, I needed my "roadie" every night to help me unwind.
I never drove drunk, and I really don't see how it's any different than drinking a Pepsi.
Open Container Band??
Never heard them, must be a C/W band, like in the movie, "Blues Brothers"..........
Guess that means their first open-container law didn't work. Making another law is SURE to do the trick!
I guess this won't be happening in Montana.
Great law!!
Now we see the "open" containers on the sides of the roads. People are dumping the "evidence" out of the cars.
If you have SUV and coming back from dinner with unfinished bottle, you are drinking criminal.
This drinking stuff has just gotten way out of hand. Let's ban alcohol and that will stop the problem.
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