MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURE
2022 Regular Session
To: Judiciary B
By: Representative Currie
AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 45-3-41, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO ALLOW INTEROPERABILITY BETWEEN RADIOS OF THE MISSISSIPPI HIGHWAY SAFETY PATROL AND COUNTIES AND MUNICIPALITIES; AND FOR RELATED PURPOSES.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI:
SECTION 1. Section 45-3-41, Mississippi Code of 1972, is amended as follows:
45-3-41. (1) Any county or
municipality now or hereafter having a twenty-four * * *-hour law enforcement system is
hereby authorized by an order duly entered upon the minutes of such governing
authority thereof to request the Mississippi Highway Safety Patrol to purchase
and install in some permanent office provided therefor a proper and suitable
radio receiving set, subject to the approval of the Mississippi Highway Safety
Patrol. Such county or municipality may by an order duly entered upon the minutes
of such governing authority allow their primary dispatch frequency or talk group
channel to be programmed into any county or municipal radio for the purpose of interoperability
between agencies.
(2) The Mississippi Highway Safety Patrol shall, upon the receipt of such request by any such municipality or county, purchase and install in such county or municipality in a building provided by such county or municipality a proper and suitable radio receiving set, which shall be tuned or adjusted in order to allow the county or municipality to program their radios to receive broadcasts from the radio station or stations operated by the Mississippi Highway Safety Patrol in that county or municipality's area of jurisdiction. The county or municipality making such request when such receiving set is duly installed shall reimburse the state highway patrol for all sums paid out in the purchase price of such set.
SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after July 1, 2022.