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MS HB640

Bill

Status

Failed

2/4/2025

Primary Sponsor

Gene Newman

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Origin

House of Representatives

2025 Regular Session

AI Summary

  • Authorizes sheriffs and their deputies to use radar speed detection equipment on public roads, streets, and highways outside municipal corporate limits that are under county board of supervisors jurisdiction.

  • Maintains existing prohibition on radar use by most law enforcement agencies except the Mississippi Highway Safety Patrol, with limited exceptions for municipal police and campus police.

  • Adds sheriff radar authorization as a new exception (subsection e) to the existing radar equipment restrictions in Mississippi Code Section 63-3-519.

  • Takes effect July 1, 2025.

Legislative Description

Radar; authorize sheriff and deputies to use on county roads to enforce speed limits.

Last Action

Died In Committee

2/4/2025

Committee Referrals

Judiciary B1/15/2025

Full Bill Text

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