Bill Text: MS HB1089 | 2025 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: County sheriffs; authorize use of radar speed detection equipment under certain conditions.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-20 - Referred To Judiciary B;Accountability, Efficiency, Transparency [HB1089 Detail]
Download: Mississippi-2025-HB1089-Introduced.html
MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURE
2025 Regular Session
To: Judiciary B; Accountability, Efficiency, Transparency
By: Representative Newman
House Bill 1089
AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 63-3-519, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO AUTHORIZE ANY COUNTY SHERIFF OR DEPUTY SHERIFF TO UTILIZE RADAR SPEED DETECTION EQUIPMENT UPON THE APPROVAL OF THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS; 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:
(a) By municipal law
enforcement officers within a municipality having a population of two thousand
(2,000) or more according to the latest or a previous federal census upon the
public streets of the municipality, but in no case where the latest federal
census population for the municipality is less than one thousand five hundred
(1,500) * * *.
(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 census on federally designated highways lying within the corporate limits.
(e) By any county sheriff or deputy sheriff upon the county roads of their respective county with board of supervisors approval. Such approval shall be voted on and approved by a majority vote, and the approval shall be spread upon the board minutes of the county.
The Mississippi Highway Safety Patrol shall be immediately notified by municipal law enforcement of any road blockages or emergencies occurring on any federally designated limited-access highways lying within the corporate limits.
SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after July 1, 2025.
