HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 2772        FILED ON: 1/21/2011

HOUSE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 2253

 

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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PRESENTED BY:

Alice Hanlon Peisch

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To the Honorable Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in General
Court assembled:

The undersigned legislators and/or citizens respectfully petition for the adoption of the accompanying bill:

An Act improving apprehension of drunk drivers and other law violators.

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PETITION OF:

 

Name:

District/Address:

Date Added:

Alice Hanlon Peisch

14th Norfolk

1/21/2011

Colleen M. Garry

36th Middlesex

1/31/2011

Anne M. Gobi

5th Worcester

2/1/2011

William M. Straus

10th Bristol

2/1/2011

Richard J. Ross

Norfolk, Bristol and Middlesex

2/1/2011

William N. Brownsberger

 

2/1/2011

Richard T. Moore

 

2/1/2011

Thomas J. Calter

12th Plymouth

2/3/2011

Marc T. Lombardo

22nd Middlesex

2/3/2011

Bradley H. Jones, Jr.

20th Middlesex

2/3/2011

Daniel B. Winslow

9th Norfolk

2/3/2011

Peter V. Kocot

1st Hampshire

2/3/2011

Randy Hunt

5th Barnstable

2/3/2011

Paul Brodeur

32nd Middlesex

2/3/2011

Stephen L. DiNatale

3rd Worcester

2/3/2011

David Paul Linsky

5th Middlesex

2/3/2011

William C. Galvin

6th Norfolk

2/3/2011

Jennifer E. Benson

37th Middlesex

2/3/2011

Stephen R. Canessa

12th Bristol

2/3/2011

Carolyn C. Dykema

8th Middlesex

2/3/2011

Todd M. Smola

1st Hampden

2/3/2011

Christopher N. Speranzo

3rd Berkshire

2/3/2011

Stephen Stat Smith

28th Middlesex

2/3/2011

Jason M. Lewis

31st Middlesex

2/3/2011

Gailanne M. Cariddi

1st Berkshire

2/3/2011

John D. Keenan

7th Essex

2/3/2011

James J. Dwyer

30th Middlesex

2/3/2011

F. Jay Barrows

1st Bristol

2/3/2011

Sal N. DiDomenico

Middlesex and Suffolk

2/3/2011

Michael R. Knapik

 

2/3/2011

Donald H. Wong

9th Essex

2/3/2011

Thomas P. Conroy

13th Middlesex

2/3/2011

David T. Vieira

3rd Barnstable

2/4/2011

Theodore C. Speliotis

13th Essex

2/4/2011

Cleon H. Turner

1st Barnstable

2/4/2011

Ryan C. Fattman

18th Worcester

2/4/2011

Christopher G. Fallon

33rd Middlesex

2/4/2011

Lori A. Ehrlich

8th Essex

2/4/2011

David M. Nangle

17th Middlesex

2/4/2011

Kevin J. Kuros

8th Worcester

2/4/2011

Angelo J. Puppolo, Jr.

12th Hampden

2/4/2011

Kimberly N. Ferguson

1st Worcester

2/4/2011

George N. Peterson, Jr.

9th Worcester

2/4/2011

Michael O. Moore

 

2/4/2011

John J. Binienda

17th Worcester

2/4/2011

Jennifer L. Flanagan

 

2/4/2011

Jonathan Hecht

29th Middlesex

2/4/2011

Daniel K. Webster

6th Plymouth

2/4/2011

David M. Torrisi

14th Essex

2/4/2011

Demetrius J. Atsalis

2nd Barnstable

2/4/2011

Viriato Manuel deMacedo

1st Plymouth

2/4/2011

Mark J. Cusack

5th Norfolk

2/4/2011

Matthew A. Beaton

11th Worcester

2/4/2011

James Arciero

2nd Middlesex

2/4/2011

John V. Fernandes

10th Worcester

2/4/2011

Kathi-Anne Reinstein

16th Suffolk

2/4/2011

Katherine M. Clark

Fifth Middlesex

2/4/2011

Bruce E. Tarr

 

2/4/2011

Steven A. Tolman

 

2/4/2011


HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 2772        FILED ON: 1/21/2011

HOUSE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 2253

By Ms. Peisch of Wellesley, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 2253) of Alice Hanlon Peisch and others relative to improving the apprehension of drunk drivers and other law violators.  The Judiciary.

 

[SIMILAR MATTER FILED IN PREVIOUS SESSION
SEE SENATE, NO. 1742 OF 2009-2010.]

 

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

 

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In the Year Two Thousand Eleven

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An Act improving apprehension of drunk drivers and other law violators.

 

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
 

SECTION 1. Section 98A of Chapter 41 of the General Laws as appearing in the 2008 Official Edition is amended by replacing the entire section with the following:  A police officer of a city or town may stop a person or vehicle in a city or town that borders the officer’s city or town if the officer has reason to believe that the person or vehicle recently traveled through his or her city or town under circumstances where the officer would have had the authority to stop the person or vehicle for the purpose of making an arrest, placing an operator in protective custody, issuing a citation or taking any other enforcement action. Said officer may return any person so arrested or placed in protective custody to the jurisdiction wherein said offence was committed or other condition or violation was observed. No criminal case shall be dismissed, and no evidence in a criminal case shall be suppressed, based on the fact that a stop of a person or motor vehicle did not comport with this section. Nothing contained in this section shall be construed as limiting the powers of a police officer to make arrests and in so far as possible this section shall be deemed to be declaratory of the common law of the commonwealth.