SECTION 1. Chapter 90 of the General Laws, as appearing in the 2018 Official Edition, is hereby amended by inserting after section 62, the following new section:-
Section 63.
A) The following words shall have the following meanings:
“Pretextual traffic stop” – A traffic stop in which a reasonable law enforcement officer would not have made a stop without a pretextual motivation.
“Law enforcement officer”, a law enforcement officer as defined in section 220 of chapter 6.
B) No law enforcement officer shall engage in a pretextual traffic stop.
C) No law enforcement officer shall ask questions during a traffic stop that are not reasonably related to the purpose of the stop without independent justification.
D) No law enforcement officer shall search a vehicle or a person during a traffic stop unless that search is reasonably related to the purpose of the stop, without independent justification.
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