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S.B. 100 Enrolled

    

RADAR JAMMING DEVICES

    
1998 GENERAL SESSION

    
STATE OF UTAH

    
Sponsor: Joseph L. Hull

    AN ACT RELATING TO MOTOR VEHICLES; PROHIBITING CERTAIN POSSESSION AND
    USES OF RADAR JAMMING DEVICES; PROVIDING EXCEPTIONS; AND PROVIDING
    PENALTIES.
    This act affects sections of Utah Code Annotated 1953 as follows:
    ENACTS:
         41-6-52.7, Utah Code Annotated 1953
    Be it enacted by the Legislature of the state of Utah:
        Section 1. Section 41-6-52.7 is enacted to read:
         41-6-52.7. Radar jamming devices and jamming radar prohibited -- Defense --
     Exceptions -- Penalties.
        (1) As used in this section, "radar jamming device" means any instrument or mechanism
    designed or intended to interfere with the radar or any laser that is used by law enforcement
    personnel to measure the speed of a motor vehicle on a highway.
        (2) (a) A person may not operate a motor vehicle on a highway with a radar jamming
    device in the motor vehicle.
        (b) A person may not knowingly use a radar jamming device to interfere with the radar
    signals or lasers used by law enforcement personnel to measure the speed of a motor vehicle on
    a highway.
        (3) It is an affirmative defense to a charge under Subsection (2)(a) that the radar jamming
    device was in an inoperative condition or could not be readily used at the time of the arrest or
    citation.
        (4) This section does not apply to law enforcement personnel acting in their official
    capacity.
        (5) A person who violates this section is guilty of a class C misdemeanor.
    


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