HB3016 - Tennessee - Law Enforcement

Companion Bill SB3338. Law Enforcement - Authorizes certain officers and employees of local emergency management agencies to use blue flashing lights on their official motor vehicles. - Amends TCA Title 55, Chapter 9, Part 4. Fiscal Summary for *HB3016 / SB3338 MINIMAL Bill Summary for *HB3016 / SB3338 Under present law, it is a Class C misdemeanor for anyone to install, maintain, or exhibit blue flashing emergency lights or blue flashing emergency lights in combination with red flashing emergency lights, except full-time, salaried, uniformed law enforcement officers of the state, county, or city and municipal governments of the state, and commissioned members of the Tennessee bureau of investigation when their official duties so require. This bill creates an exception to the above prohibition so that such lights [...]

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