House Bill 707

AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 63-3-519, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO AUTHORIZE, UPON APPROVAL OF A COUNTY'S BOARD OF SUPERVISORS, THE SHERIFF AND DEPUTY SHERIFFS TO USE RADAR SPEED DETECTION EQUIPMENT UPON ANY PUBLIC ROAD, STREET OR HIGHWAY WITHIN THE COUNTY, EXCLUDING ANY INTERSTATE HIGHWAY, LYING OUTSIDE OF THE CORPORATE LIMITS OF ANY INCORPORATED MUNICIPALITY; TO PROVIDE THAT FINES COLLECTED BY A COUNTY FROM THE USE OF RADAR SHALL BE DEPOSITED INTO A SPECIAL FUND TO BE APPROPRIATED BY THE LEGISLATURE FOR MAINTENANCE, RECONSTRUCTION AND/OR REPAIR OF EXISTING HIGHWAYS AND BRIDGES; 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:

* * *1.(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;

* * *2.(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;

* * *3.(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.

(d) In any county whose board of supervisors has voted to authorize, upon a majority vote spread upon its minutes, by the sheriff and deputy sheriffs on any public road, street or highway within the county, excluding any interstate highway, that is located outside the corporate limits of any incorporated municipality. The fines collected under this paragraph (d) shall be remitted to the State Treasury and shall be deposited into a segregated highway and bridge special fund to be appropriated by the Legislature exclusively for the maintenance, reconstruction and/or repair of existing highways and bridges by and/or through the Mississippi Department of Transportation.

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 decennial census.

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after July 1, 2018.