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Regular Session, 2012
HOUSE BILL NO. 713
BY REPRESENTATIVE HUNTER
LAW ENFORCEMENT: Provides with respect to law enforcement checkpoints
AN ACT1
To amend and reenact R.S. 32:295.4(introductory paragraph) and to enact R.S. 32:295.4(5),2
relative to law enforcement checkpoints; to require advance notice to the public of3
seat belt and insurance checkpoints and to provide for related matters.4
Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:5
Section 1. R.S. 32:295.4(introductory paragraph) is hereby amended and R.S.6
32:295.4(5) is hereby enacted to read as follows: 7
ยง295.4. Guidelines for seat belt, motor vehicle inspection sticker, and motor vehicle8
liability security checkpoints; law enforcement agencies ; advance notice9
All law enforcement agencies involved in traffic enforcement shall establish10
guidelines for the operation of seat belt checkpoints ,motor vehicle inspection11
sticker, and proof of compulsory motor vehicle liability security checkpoints. Such12
guidelines shall include but not be limited to the following provisions:13
(1) The location, time, and duration for seat belt and compulsory motor14
vehicle liability security checkpoints shall be established in written form by15
supervisory or other administrative personnel of the law enforcement agency rather16
than the field officers implementing the checkpoint.17
(2) Provision for advance warning to the approaching motorists with signs,18
flares, and other indications to warn motorists of an impending stop and to provide19
indication of its official nature as a police checkpoint.20 HLS 12RS-1375 ORIGINAL
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(3) Provisions to ensure detention of motorists for a minimal length of time.1
(4) The use of a systematic, nonrandom criteria for stopping motorists.2
(5) Provisions for the advance notice to the public by radio or television3
broadcasts and newspapers.4
DIGEST
The digest printed below was prepared by House Legislative Services. It constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument. The keyword, one-liner, abstract, and digest do not constitute
part of the law or proof or indicia of legislative intent. [R.S. 1:13(B) and 24:177(E)]
Hunter HB No. 713
Abstract: Requires advance notice to the public of seat belt, motor vehicle inspection
sticker, and insurance checkpoints.
Present law requires all law enforcement agencies involved in traffic enforcement shall
establish guidelines for the operation of seat belt and proof of compulsory motor vehicle
liability security checkpoints. The guidelines shall include but not be limited to the
following provisions:
(1) The location, time, and duration for seat belt and compulsory motor vehicle liability
security checkpoints shall be established in written form by supervisory or other
administrative personnel of the law enforcement agency rather than the field officers
implementing the checkpoint.
(2) Provisions for advance warning to the approaching motorists with signs, flares, and
other indications to warn motorists of an impending stop and to provide indication
of its official nature as a police checkpoint.
(3) Provisions to ensure detention of motorists for a minimal length of time.
(4) The use of a systematic, nonrandom criteria for stopping motorists.
Proposed law adds motor vehicle inspection sticker checkpoint to the present law and further
requires advance notice to the public by radio or television and newspaper.
(Amends R.S. 32:295.4(intro.para.); Adds R.S. 32:295.4(5))