Bill Text: MS SB2420 | 2013 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Radar; authorize sheriff departments to use in limited circumstances.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2013-02-05 - Died In Committee [SB2420 Detail]

Download: Mississippi-2013-SB2420-Introduced.html

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MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURE

2013 Regular Session

To: Housing; Judiciary, Division B

By: Senator(s) Blount

Senate Bill 2420

AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 63-3-519, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO AUTHORIZE THE SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT OF CERTAIN COUNTIES TO RUN RADAR ON CERTAIN ROADS; AND FOR RELATED PURPOSES.

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

     SECTION 1.  Section 63-3-519, Mississippi Code of 1972, is amended as follows:

     63-3-519.  It shall be unlawful for any person or peace officer or law enforcement agency, except the Mississippi Highway Safety Patrol, to purchase or use or allow to be used any type of radar speed detection equipment upon any public street, road or highway of this state.  However, such equipment may be used:

          ( * * *1a)  By municipal law enforcement officers within a municipality having a population of two thousand (2,000) or more upon the public streets of the municipality;

          ( * * *2b)  By any college or university campus police force within the confines of any campus wherein more than two thousand (2,000) students are enrolled;

          ( * * *3c)  By municipal law enforcement officers in any municipality having a population * * *in excess of fifteen thousand (15,000) or more according to the latest federal decennial census on federally designated highways lying within the corporate limits * * *.;

          (d)  By any sheriff or sheriff's deputy on any public road that is not a state highway or interstate in any county having a population of ninety-five thousand (95,000) or more according to the latest federal decennial census.

     The Mississippi Highway Safety Patrol will not set up radar on highways within municipalities with a population in excess of fifteen thousand (15,000) according to the latest federal census. The Commissioner of Public Safety shall prescribe by rule the training necessary for a sheriff or sheriff's deputy to operate radar as authorized under this section.

     SECTION 2.  This act shall take effect and be in force from and after July 1, 2013.

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