736.1 No person shall sell or offer for sale in the District any device designed to detect or counteract police radar.

736.2 No person shall use or have in his possession in an automobile in the District any device used to detect or counteract police radar.

736.3 This section does not apply to any vehicle or equipment used by the Armed Forces of the United States.

SOURCE: Commissioner’s Order 61-2026 effective November 21, 1961, Article 25, § 16 of the Police Regulations (May, 1981).

(Old original law for reference...)

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA MUNINCIPAL REGULATIONS
TITLE 1. ADMINISTRATION
CHAPTER 3. MAYOR, COUNCIL, AND OTHER OFFICERS
D.C. CODE § 1-319 (1995)

D.C. Pol. Reg: Article 25, Paragraph 16 provides:

   No person shall, in the District of Columbia, sell or offer for sale, or use, or have in his possession in a Motor Vehicle, any device designed to detect or counteract Police RADAR. This section shall NOT apply to any vehicle or equipment used by the Armed Forces of the United States.

   This regulation is a modification of a substantially similar regulation adopted by the District of Columbia Commissioners in 1961. The Commissioners adopted the regulation under their authority, vested in them by Congress, to "make" and enforce all such reasonable and usual Police regulations . . . as they may deem necessary for the protection of lives, limbs, health, comfort and quiet of all persons and the protection of property." See D.C. Code 1973, § 1-226.

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA MUNINCIPAL REGULATIONS
TITLE 1. ADMINISTRATION
CHAPTER 3. MAYOR, COUNCIL, AND OTHER OFFICERS
D.C. CODE s. 1-319 (1995)

§ 1-319. Regulations for Protection of Life, Health, and Property

   The Council of the District of Columbia is hereby authorized and empowered to make, and the Mayor of the District of Columbia is hereby authorized and empowered to enforce, all such reasonable and usual Police regulations in addition to those already made under §§ 1-315 and 1-318, as the Council may deem necessary for the protection of lives, limbs, health, comfort, and quiet of all persons and the protection of all property within the District of Columbia.

Retranscribed by: Todd L. Sherman/KB4MHH
Last updated: January 16, 2003.

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