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used in this subchapter, unless the context otherwise requires:
- "Law enforcement
officer" means any appointed law enforcement officer or
sheriff who is responsible for the prevention and detection
of crime and the enforcement of the criminal, traffic, or
highway laws of this state;
- "Full-time
law enforcement officer" means any sheriff or officer employed
by a law enforcement agency and who works forty (40) or
more hours per week or any Part-Time officer employed by
a law enforcement agency who works more than twenty (20)
hours per week and who has met the selection and training
requirements for Full-Time certified officers;
- "Commission"
means the Governor's Commission on Law Enforcement Standards
and Training as established by 12-9-103;
- "Political
subdivision" means any county, municipality, township, or
other specific local unit of general government;
- "Part-time
law enforcement officer" means any officer working less
than twenty (20) hours per week and receiving salary from
the employing law enforcement agency;
- (6) "Law enforcement
agency" means any police force or organization whose primary
responsiblity as established by statute or ordinance is
the enforcement of the criminal, traffic or highway laws
of this state;
- "Police traffic
radar" means any speed measurement device utilizing the
Doppler principle or an infrared light system to measure
the speed of motor vehicles.
HISTORY Acts 1983, No. 672, 1; 1985, No. 115, 1; 1991, No.
374, 7; 1993, No. 63, 7;
A.S.A. 1947, 42-1010.
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