MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURE
2004 Regular Session
To: Transportation
By: Representative Guice
AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 63-3-515, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO PROVIDE THAT MUNICIPAL LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS SHALL NOT BE AUTHORIZED TO ENFORCE SPEEDING VIOLATIONS ON INTERSTATE HIGHWAYS; TO PROVIDE AN EXCEPTION FOR MUNICIPALITIES WITH A POPULATION IN EXCESS OF ONE HUNDRED FIFTY THOUSAND; AND FOR RELATED PURPOSES.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI:
SECTION 1. Section 63-3-515, Mississippi Code of 1972, is amended as follows:
63-3-515. (1) The boards of supervisors of counties and the governing authorities of municipalities are hereby authorized to adopt by order or resolution and to enforce within their respective territorial boundaries the maximum legal rate of speed at which a motor vehicle may be run or operated along any public street, road, highway (except state-maintained highways), or portion thereof in the vicinity of schools and churches, upon levees and causeways and in other special zones which the board or governing authorities may designate. The rate of speed so established shall be determined upon the basis of an engineering and traffic study. The order or resolution setting such speed limits may provide that such limits are only effective during specified times of the day, days of the week and months of the year.
(2) Municipal law enforcement officers shall not be authorized to enforce speeding violations on interstate highways. This subsection shall not be applicable to law enforcement officers in municipalities having a population in excess of one hundred fifty thousand (150,000), according to the latest federal decennial census.
SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after July 1, 2004.