Bill Text: MS SB2585 | 2011 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Radar; revise entities authorized to operate.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2011-02-01 - Died In Committee [SB2585 Detail]

Download: Mississippi-2011-SB2585-Introduced.html

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MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURE

2011 Regular Session

To: Highways and Transportation

By: Senator(s) Yancey

Senate Bill 2585

AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 63-3-519, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO REVISE THE OPERATION OF RADAR BY VARIOUS LAW ENFORCEMENT ENTITIES IN LIMITED SITUATIONS; 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.  (1)  It is 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:

          (a)  By municipal law enforcement officers within a municipality having a population of two thousand (2,000) or more according to the latest federal decennial census upon the public streets of the municipality;

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

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

          (d)  By the sheriff of any county on any public road, street or highway that is:

              (i)  1.  Under the jurisdiction of the county board of supervisors for maintenance and construction where a speed limit has been duly established under law if the speed limit is clearly posted; and

                   2.  Located outside the corporate limits of a municipality authorized to operate radar under subsection (1)(a) of this section; or

              (ii)  Located inside the corporate limits of a municipality not authorized to operate radar under subsection (1)(a) of this section.

     The Mississippi Highway Safety Patrol shall not set up radar on highways within municipalities with a population in excess of fifteen thousand (15,000) according to the latest federal decennial census.

     SECTION 2.  This act shall take effect and be in force from and after July 1, 2011.

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