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- Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 13:58:12 EDT
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- From: WRIGHT@MOREKYPR.BITNET
- Subject: Amateur radio/Ky revised scanner law
- Lines: 48
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- The Kentucky Scanner Law Revised - section concerning Amateur Radio
-
- KRS:432.570
- Possession or use of radio capable of sending or receiving police messages
- restricted; penalty; enforcement
-
- 4) Nothing contained in this section shall prohibit the possession
- of a radio by:
-
- a) An individual who is a retailer or wholesaler...ect
-
- b) A commercial or education radio or television station, licensed by
- the F.C.C.
-
- -->c) An individual who posses such a radio, provided it is capable of
- receiving radio transmissions only and is not capable of sending or
- transmitting radio messages, at his place of residence; licensed
- commercial auto towing trucks; newspaper reporters and photographers;
- disaster and emergency services personnel authorized in writing by
- the state director of disaster and emergency service (for state personnel)
- or the chief executive of the city or county (for their respective
- personnel); a person holding a valid license issued by the F.C.C.
- in the amateur radio service; peace officers authorized in writing
- by the head of their law enforcement agency, Commonwealth's
- attorneys and their assistants, county attorneys and their assistants,
- except that it shall be unlawful to use such radio to facilitate
- any criminal activity or to avoid apprehension by law enforcement
- officers. Violation of this section shall, in addition to any other
- penalty prescribed by law, result in a forfeiture to the local law
- enforcement agency of such radio.
-
- This is the new scanner law provision that includes us Amateurs. I have
- discussed this section with some local attorneys and they feel the way
- I do about this new section: The law lets us have a scanning radio in our
- vehicles but that radio better not be able to transmit no matter what the
- frequency is being used. If you don't get this message try re-reading
- the first 3 lines in section "C". No matter if one is using the local
- repeater, if that radio can scan it better not be able to transmit.
-
- Something else I noticed in this law comes under Paragraph 3.
- We all know that if convicted the radio equiptment is forfeited and/or
- destroyed. Well, even if you are not convicted of a violation, the
- equiptment may still be ordered destroyed, forfeited, or escheated
- that stinks.
-
- Tim Wright KD4OVM
- BITNET: WRIGHT@morekypr.BITNET
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