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2005 SESSION
HB 1514 Sheriffs; reimbursement of expenses incurred in responding to traffic incidents.
Introduced by: Benjamin L. Cline | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles | history
SUMMARY AS PASSED HOUSE:
Sheriffs; reimbursement of expenses incurred in responding to traffic incidents. Allows a locality to adopt an ordinance making a person convicted of certain traffic infractions or crimes liable in a separate civil action for reasonable expenses incurred by the sheriff's office of such locality for emergency response to an accident related to the violation. Current law allows the same for the locality itself and for volunteer rescue squads, but because sheriffs' offices are constitutional offices and not technically departments of the locality, the amendment is needed for clarity. Volunteer fire departments are also added to the provisions.
SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:
Sheriffs; reimbursement of expenses incurred in responding to traffic incidents. Allows a locality to adopt an ordinance making a person convicted of certain traffic infractions or crimes liable in a separate civil action for reasonable expenses incurred by the sheriff's office of such locality for emergency response to an accident related to the violation. Current law allows the same for the locality itself and for volunteer rescue squads, but because sheriffs' offices are constitutional offices and not technically departments of the locality, the amendment is needed for clarity.