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An Act To Regulate the Use of Traffic Surveillance Cameras
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:
Sec. 1.  29-A MRSA §2117  is enacted to read:
§ 2117. Use of traffic surveillance cameras restricted
The State or a municipality may not use a traffic surveillance camera to prove or enforce a violation of this Title. For purposes of this section, "traffic surveillance camera" means a device that, in conjunction with a lighted traffic-control device or a lane direction control device, as described in section 2057, subsections 1 and 3, or a speed measurement device as described in section 2075, subsection 4, automatically produces one or more photographs, one or more microphotographs, a videotape or any other recorded image of a vehicle at the time the vehicle is operated in violation of state law.
 
SUMMARY
This bill prohibits the use of a traffic surveillance camera to prove or enforce a violation of the motor vehicle laws.