SECOND REGULAR SESSION

HOUSE BILL NO. 1707

91ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY

INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVES MILLER (Sponsor), REINHART AND HUNTER.

Read 1st time January 30, 2002, and 1000 copies ordered printed.

TED WEDEL, Chief Clerk

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AN ACT

To amend chapter 43, RSMo, by adding thereto one new section relating to the speed patrol pilot project.



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

Section A. Chapter 43, RSMo, is amended by adding thereto one new section, to be known as section 43.225, to read as follows:

43.225. 1. There is hereby established within the Missouri state highway patrol a pilot project for the purpose of enforcement of speed limits upon the highways of this state, to be known as the "Speed Patrol Pilot Project". The speed patrol pilot project shall be for a period of two years and shall begin as soon as appropriations are made available for the project.

2. The lieutenant colonel of the patrol shall designate one troop zone where the speed patrol pilot project will be implemented.

3. The speed patrol pilot project shall consist of two retired Missouri state highway patrolmen to be known as speed patrolmen who shall each work no more than nine hundred ninety hours per year in the troop zone designated pursuant to subsection 2 of this section.

4. Speed patrolmen shall be certified pursuant to the provisions of chapter 590, RSMo.

5. Speed patrolmen shall have all the power and authority of any other member of the patrol pursuant to chapter 43, RSMo, however, their main duties shall be to enforce the traffic laws relating to speed limits pursuant to the provisions of sections 304.009, 304.010 and 304.011, RSMo.

6. Speed patrolmen may enforce all other laws in the same manner as other members of the patrol but only under the following circumstances:

(1) When an infraction, traffic violation, misdemeanor or felony is committed in his or her presence;

(2) When any other law enforcement officer is seriously ill or has been injured or is under attack and is in need of assistance; or

(3) When any person's life is in immediate danger or when any person is at risk of immediate physical injury.


Missouri House of Representatives