Bill Text: MO HB2444 | 2010 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Prohibits a person from operating a motor vehicle on public property while using a wireless telephone with certain exceptions

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-05-14 - Referred: Public Safety (H) [HB2444 Detail]

Download: Missouri-2010-HB2444-Introduced.html

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SECOND REGULAR SESSION

HOUSE BILL NO. 2444

95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVE WEBB.

5488L.01I                                                                                                                                                  D. ADAM CRUMBLISS, Chief Clerk

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AN ACT

To amend chapter 304, RSMo, by adding thereto one new section relating to wireless telephone use, with a penalty provision.

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Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Missouri, as follows:

            Section A. Chapter 304, RSMo, is amended by adding thereto one new section, to be known as section 304.815, to read as follows:

            304.815. 1. Beginning July 1, 2011, no person shall operate a motor vehicle, as defined in section 301.010, while using a wireless telephone unless that telephone is specifically designed and configured to allow hands-free listening and talking and is used in that manner while driving, or the motor vehicle is stationary.

            2. The provisions of this section shall not apply to:

            (1) Motor vehicles operated on private property;

            (2) A person using a wireless telephone for emergency purposes, including, but not limited to, an emergency call to a law enforcement agency, healthcare provider, fire department, or other emergency services agency or entity;

            (3) An emergency services professional using a wireless telephone while operating an authorized emergency vehicle in the course and scope of his or her duties; or

            (4) A person using a digital two-way radio that utilizes a wireless telephone that operates by depressing a push-to-talk feature and does not require immediate proximity to the ear of the user, and the person is driving one of the following vehicles:

            (a) A commercial motor vehicle, as defined in section 301.010, excluding pickup trucks;

            (b) A wrecker or tow truck, as defined in section 301.010; or

            (c) A farm tractor as defined in section 301.010.

            3. Violation of this section shall be deemed an infraction punishable by a twenty dollar fine for a first offense, and a fifty dollar fine for a second offense.

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