From: jdesmon@tdkt.kksys.com (John Desmond)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.policy
Subject: Ham Friend harassed by po
Date: 13 Sep 92 20:18:50 GMT


   Here is the MN Law that covers the use of scanners and radios in cars
for Minnesota.  Chapter and verse (pardon the pun)  :)  I hope this
helps.  Sounds like your friend came across a bit of a gung-ho cop.  It
sounds like you did well in getting the MN-BCA's help in setting them
straight.
   This following is FREQable from 1:282/100 as MNSTATUE.TXT

73, John  K0TG

              299C.37  Police communication equipment; use, sale

  Subdivision 1.  (a) No person other than peace officers within the state, the
members of the state patrol, and persons who hold an amateur radio license
issued by the Federal Communications Commission, shall equip any motor vehicle
with any radio equipment of combination of equipment, capable of receiving any
radio signal, message, or information from any police emergency frequency, or
install, use or possess the equipment in a motor vehicle without permission
from the superintendent of the bureau upon a form prescribed by the
superintendent.

An amateur radio license holder is not entiltled to exercise the privilege
granted by this paragraph if the license holder has been conviced in this state
or elsewhere of a crime of violence, as defined in section 624.712, subdivision
5, unless ten years have elapsed since the person has been restored to civil
rights or the sentence has expired, whichever occurs first, and during that
time the person has not been convicted of any other crime of violence.

For purposes of this section, "crime of violence" includes a crime in another
state or jurisdiction that would have been a crime of violence if it had been
committed in this state.

Radio equipment installed, used, or possessed as permitted by this paragraph
must be under the direct control of the license holder wherever it is used.

   (b) Except as provided in paragraph (c), any person who is convicted of a
violation of this subdivision shall, upon conviction for the first offense, be
guilty of a misdemeanor, and for the second and subsequent offenses shall be
guilty of a gross misdemeanor.

   (c) An amateur radio license holder who exercises the privilege granted by
paragraph (a) shall carry the amateur radio license in the motor vehicle at all
times and shall present the license to a peace officer on request.  A violation
of this paragraph is a petty misdemeanor.  A second or subsequent violation is
a misdemeanor.

Subd. 3.  The superintendent of the bureau shall, upon written application,
issue a written permit, which shall be nontransferable, to a person, firm, or
corporation showing good cause to use radio equipment capable of receiving a
police emergency frequency, as a nesessity, in the lawful pursuit of a
business, trade, or occupation.

Subd. 4.  Repealed by Laws 1983, c. 293, & 115.

1987 Legislation
    The 1987 amendment allowed the bureau of criminal apprehension to allow
amateur radio operators to use equipment capable of receiving police emergency
radio frequencies.
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