Bill Text: MA S1742 | 2009-2010 | 186th General Court | Introduced


Bill Title: Improve the prehension of drunk drivers and other law violators

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-04-05 - Reporting date extended to Friday, May 7, 2010 [S1742 Detail]

Download: Massachusetts-2009-S1742-Introduced.html

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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PRESENTED BY:

Menard, Joan (SEN)

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To the Honorable Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in General
                Court assembled:

                The undersigned legislators and/or citizens respectfully petition for the passage of the accompanying bill:

An Act improving apprehension of drunk drivers and other law violators.

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PETITION OF:

 

Name:

District/Address:

Menard, Joan (SEN)

First Bristol and Plymouth

Bruce E. Tarr

First Essex and Middlesex

Michael R. Knapik

Second Hampden and Hampshire

Cheryl A. Coakley-Rivera

10th Hampden

George N. Peterson, Jr.

9th Worcester

Karyn E. Polito

11th Worcester

William N. Brownsberger

24th Middlesex

Angelo J. Puppolo, Jr.

12th Hampden

Todd M. Smola

1st Hampden

Carolyn Dykema

8th Middlesex

Jennifer L. Flanagan

Worcester and Middlesex

James Dwyer

30th Middlesex

Susan Williams Gifford

2nd Plymouth

Michael Brady

9th Plymouth

Richard J. Ross

9th Norfolk

Gale D. Candaras

First Hampden and Hampshire

Geraldo Alicea

6th Worcester

Patricia A. Haddad

5th Bristol

Jonathan Hecht

29th Middlesex

Harold P. Naughton, Jr.

12th Worcester


 

[SIMILAR MATTER FILED IN PREVIOUS SESSION
SEE SENATE, NO. S00947 OF 2007-2008.]

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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In the Year Two Thousand and Nine

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An Act improving apprehension of drunk drivers and other law violators.



                Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

            SECTION 1. Section 98A of Chapter 41 of the General Laws as appearing in the 2006 Official Edition is amended by replacing the entire section with the following:

A police officer of a city or town may stop a person or vehicle in a city or town that borders the officer’s city or town if the officer has reason to believe that the person or vehicle recently traveled through his or her city or town under circumstances where the officer would have had the authority to stop the person or vehicle for the purpose of making an arrest, placing an operator in protective custody, issuing a citation or taking any other enforcement action. Said officer may return any person so arrested or placed in protective custody to the jurisdiction wherein said offence was committed or other condition or violation was observed. No criminal case shall be dismissed, and no evidence in a criminal case shall be suppressed, based on the fact that a stop of a person or motor vehicle did not comport with this section. Nothing contained in this section shall be construed as limiting the powers of a police officer to make arrests and in so far as possible this section shall be deemed to be declaratory of the common law of the commonwealth.

 

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