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MO HB2474

Bill

Status

Introduced

2/3/2016

Primary Sponsor

Lyle Rowland

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Origin

House of Representatives

2016 Regular Session

AI Summary

  • Adds firefighters to the list of officials whose signals and directions motor vehicle operators and animal riders must obey on Missouri highways, alongside law enforcement officers, sheriffs, and deputy sheriffs

  • Expands the scope of covered conveyances to include "any vehicle or any other conveyance regardless of means of propulsion"

  • Requires compliance with signals given for directing traffic movement or enforcing any offense or infraction

  • Willfully failing to obey signals, refusing directions, or resisting/opposing a firefighter in the proper discharge of duties constitutes a Class A misdemeanor

  • Consolidates two existing versions of section 575.145 RSMo into one unified statute

Legislative Description

Requires a motor vehicle operator or rider of any animal traveling on the highways of this state to stop or obey any signal or direction by a firefighter

Last Action

Voted Do Pass (H)

3/31/2016

Committee Referrals

Select Committee on State and Local Governments3/16/2016
Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness2/24/2016

Full Bill Text

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