MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURE
2017 Regular Session
To: Highways and Transportation; Judiciary, Division B
By: Senator(s) Younger (By Request)
AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 63-3-519, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO AUTHORIZE THE SHERIFF OF ANY COUNTY TO USE RADAR SPEED DETECTION EQUIPMENT; 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 and deputies of any county.
(2) 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, 2017.