Bill Text: MS HB275 | 2010 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Cellular phone use in automobiles; state law regulating preempts local ordinances.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2010-02-02 - Died In Committee [HB275 Detail]

Download: Mississippi-2010-HB275-Introduced.html

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MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURE

2010 Regular Session

To: Transportation

By: Representative Denny

House Bill 275

AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 63-3-212, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO PROVIDE THAT STATE LAW REGULATING THE USE OF CELLULAR PHONES IN AUTOMOBILES PREEMPTS ANY LOCAL ORDINANCE; AND FOR RELATED PURPOSES.

     BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI:

     SECTION 1.  Section 63-3-212, Mississippi Code of 1972, is amended as follows:

     63-3-212.  No county, municipality or other political subdivision shall enact any ordinance restricting the use of cellular phones in any motor vehicle unless the state * * * authorizes a county, municipality or other political subdivision to enact that type of an ordinance.  State law shall occupy and preempt the entire field of legislation in this state relating in any way to inattentive driving and cellular phone usage in automobiles to the complete exclusion of any order, ordinance or regulation by any municipality or other political subdivision of this state.  Any existing or future orders, ordinances or regulations in this field by any municipality or other political subdivision of this state are null and void.

     SECTION 2.  This act shall take effect and be in force from and after July 1, 2010.

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