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SB 813 Virginia High Speed Chase Alert Program; created.

Introduced by: Joseph D. Morrissey | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles

SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:

Virginia High Speed Chase Alert Program. Creates a program for local, regional, or statewide notification of a high speed chase, defined in the bill as an active attempt by an on-duty law-enforcement officer while driving a conspicuously marked law-enforcement vehicle to apprehend or stop another moving motor vehicle and the driver of such other vehicle is resisting apprehension by maintaining or increasing his speed or by ignoring the law-enforcement officer's attempt to stop such vehicle, and the ongoing pursuit poses a credible threat to the health and safety of other motor vehicle operators or the general public and under such other circumstances as deemed appropriate by the Virginia State Police.


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