Bill Text: MS HB514 | 2017 | Regular Session | Engrossed
Bill Title: MS Transportation Commission; authorize to require its contractors to provide work zone safety operations.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 3-1)
Status: (Failed) 2017-02-28 - Died In Committee [HB514 Detail]
Download: Mississippi-2017-HB514-Engrossed.html
MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURE
2017 Regular Session
To: Transportation
By: Representatives Busby, Carpenter, Barnett, Sykes
House Bill 514
(As Passed the House)
AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE MISSISSIPPI TRANSPORTATION COMMISSION TO REQUIRE ITS CONTRACTORS TO PROVIDE WORK ZONE SAFETY OPERATIONS; TO AUTHORIZE THE COMMISSION'S CONTRACTORS TO ENTER INTO AGREEMENTS WITH STATE AND LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES TO PROVIDE WORK ZONE SAFETY OPERATIONS; TO AUTHORIZE THE COMMISSION TO UTILIZE ITS OFFICERS TO PERFORM CERTAIN WORK ZONE SAFETY OPERATION FUNCTIONS; AND FOR RELATED PURPOSES.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI:
SECTION 1. (1) The Mississippi Transportation Commission may require its contractors to provide for law enforcement safety operations in work zones that the commission determines are on high-volume roadways or on high risk projects by including such provision in a contract between the commission and the contractor or as part of a bid requirement. A contractor may provide law enforcement work zone safety operations by entering into agreements with state, county and/or municipal law enforcement agencies for the provision of such operations. Any law enforcement agency that enters into such agreement with a contractor shall only provide work zone safety operation services in locations that are within the jurisdiction of the law enforcement agency, and the agency shall only have those enforcement powers granted to them by law. Contractors required to provide work zone safety operations and state law enforcement agencies, counties and municipalities are authorized to enter into agreements to effectuate the purposes of this subsection (1).
(2) The Mississippi Transportation Commission may utilize officers from the Mississippi Department of Transportation Office of Law Enforcement to perform safety operations in work zones that the commission determines are on high-volume roadways or on high risk projects. Officers of the Mississippi Department of Transportation Office of Law Enforcement are authorized to utilize any enforcement power already granted to them by law in the performance of work zone safety operations and may engage any lights on their vehicles to encourage the public to observe all traffic laws while proceeding through the work zone. This subsection (2) shall not be construed as granting the Office of Law Enforcement general police powers.
SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after July 1, 2017.
