Vulgar or profane language
This law is about how people must behave on a bus, in a bus terminal, or nearby. A person cannot use dirty or offensive language, be drunk or on illegal drugs, have or use illegal drugs, or drink alcohol on a regular bus. A person also cannot ignore a reasonable order from the bus driver or a company worker. If someone breaks these rules, the bus driver can stop the bus and make that person get off. Breaking this law is a class C misdemeanor, which is a minor criminal charge.
Classifications stated in the statute. Actual outcomes vary.
577.709. Vulgar or profane language — passenger under influence of alcohol or drugs, penalties, exceptions — driver may remove passenger from bus, when. — 1. It is , while on a bus, in the , or on property for any person:
(1) To threaten a or use any , profane, or vulgar language;
(2) To be under the influence of alcohol, under the influence of a , to ingest or have in his possession any controlled substance unless properly prescribed by a physician or medical facility, or to drink of any kind in or upon any passenger bus except a ;
(3) To fail to obey a reasonable request or of a bus driver or any company .
2. If any person shall violate any of this section, the driver of the bus, or person in charge thereof, may stop it at the place where the is committed, or at the next regular or convenient stopping place of the bus and require the person to leave the bus.
3. Violation of this section is a .
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Source & history notes
(L. 1982 S.B. 519 § 4, A.L. 2014 S.B. 491) Transferred 2014; formerly 578.315; Effective 1-01-17
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