FIRST REGULAR SESSION

HOUSE BILL NO. 578

93RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY

INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVES JOHNSON (61) (Sponsor), PAGE, YAEGER,

 SANDERS BROOKS, CHAPPELLE-NADAL, OXFORD AND SATER (Co-sponsors).

         Read 1^st time February 16, 2005 and copies ordered printed.

STEPHEN S. DAVIS, Chief Clerk

0959L.01I

AN ACT

To amend chapter 304, RSMo, by adding thereto one new section relating to cameras at intersections.

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

            Section A. Chapter 304, RSMo, is amended by adding thereto one new section, to be known as section 304.285, to read as follows:

            304.285. 1. Notwithstanding any other provision of law it shall be lawful for any state or local law enforcement agency to install cameras or video cameras at intersections to record the pedestrian and vehicular traffic that occurs at such intersections for the purpose of obtaining evidence of any traffic or criminal violations which occur at such intersections.

            2. Any photographs or video recordings which are acquired as a result of the installation and use of the cameras or video cameras installed at intersections pursuant to the provisions of subsection 1 of this section shall be admissible in court as evidence against a defendant charged with violating any traffic or criminal laws, whether state or local, at such intersections.