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3/4/05-A bill to outlaw the use or sale of devices that can change some traffic signals from red to green has died.
The devices are designed to allow police, fire and other emergency officials to clear intersections before they approach.
SB351, sponsored by Sen. John Broden, D-South Bend, remained in the Senate Corrections, Criminal and Civil Matters Committee at the March 1 deadline for bills to pass from their originating chamber.
It was intended to deter anyone other than public safety and transit agencies from using so-called mobile infrared transmitters, or MIRTs.
The bill called for violators to be fined up to $10,000.
The devices, which sit on a vehicle’s dash, are not regulated by current federal standards because they rely on a beam of light instead of a radio wave to trigger the light-changing mechanisms that have been attached to some intersections.
The devices are designed to allow police, fire and other emergency officials to clear intersections before they approach.
SB351, sponsored by Sen. John Broden, D-South Bend, remained in the Senate Corrections, Criminal and Civil Matters Committee at the March 1 deadline for bills to pass from their originating chamber.
It was intended to deter anyone other than public safety and transit agencies from using so-called mobile infrared transmitters, or MIRTs.
The bill called for violators to be fined up to $10,000.
The devices, which sit on a vehicle’s dash, are not regulated by current federal standards because they rely on a beam of light instead of a radio wave to trigger the light-changing mechanisms that have been attached to some intersections.