Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 exptools 1/6/84; site ihu1h.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!ihnp4!ihu1h!parnass From: parnass@ihu1h.UUCP (Bob Parnass, AJ9S) Newsgroups: net.auto,net.ham-radio Subject: Michigan mobile scanner radio law Message-ID: <433@ihu1h.UUCP> Date: Tue, 8-Jan-85 06:35:33 EST Article-I.D.: ihu1h.433 Posted: Tue Jan 8 06:35:33 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 9-Jan-85 04:12:45 EST Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, IL Lines: 35 Xref: watmath net.auto:5348 net.ham-radio:2232 x Sorry if you've seen this before, but netnews has not been functioning properly for several days through our backbone processor, ihnp4: ============================================================== Michigan mobile scanner law (from the 1/85 issue of the RCMA Newsletter): VEHICLES EQUIPPED WITH SHORT WAVE LENGTH RADIO RECEIVING SETS (M.S.A. 28.776) (AS AMENDED IN COMPILED LAWS 1957) Section 508. "Any person who shall equip a vehicle with a radio receiving set that will receive signals sent on frequencies assigned by the Federal Communica- tions Commission of the United States of America for police purposes, or use the same in this state unless such vehicle is used or owned by a peace officer or bona fide amateur radio operator holding a conditional, general, advanced, or extra class amateur license issued by the Federal Communications Commission, without first securing a permit so to do from the Director of the Michigan State Police upon such appli- cation as may prescribe, shall be guilty of a mis- demeanor, punishable by imprisonment in the county jail not more than 1 year or by a fine of not more than $500.00 or by both such fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the court." -- =============================================================================== Bob Parnass, Bell Telephone Laboratories - ihnp4!ihu1h!parnass - (312)979-5414