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Introduced Version House Bill 2019 History

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H. B. 2019


(By Delegate Azinger)
[Introduced February 11, 2009; referred to the
Committee on Health and Human Resources then the Judiciary.]




A BILL to amend the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, by adding thereto a new section, designated §16-6-17a, relating to prohibiting employees at restaurants from handling drinking vessels by touching on or near the vessel's brim.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, be amended by adding thereto a new section, designated §16-6-17a, to read as follows:
ARTICLE 6. HOTELS AND RESTAURANTS.
§16-6-17a. Restaurant employees handling of drinking vessels.
Every person, firm or corporation engaged in conducting a restaurant shall require all persons employed thereby who handle cups, mugs, bottles, drinking glasses or other drinking vessels in which the liquid contents are intended for consumption by any customer or patron to not make any physical contact on or near the brim of the cup, mug, bottle, drinking glass or other drinking vessel upon which the customer's or patron's lips or mouth is expected to physically touch in order to drink the contents.


NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to prohibit employees at restaurants from handling drinking vessels by physically handling the drinking vessels on or near the vessel's brim.

Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken from the present law, and underscoring indicates new language that would be added.
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