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6/22/05-Rep. Paul Marcotte, R-Union, has offered a proposal that would ban hand-held cell phone use while driving. Talking on a phone equipped with a “hands-free” device would still be permitted.
The bill will be considered when Kentucky lawmakers return to the Capitol for the regular session that begins in January.
Marcotte said he feels public sentiment is behind him. In a mail survey he sent out to constituents this year, 62 percent of respondents said that banning hand-held cell phone use in vehicles was “essential to highway safety,” the newspaper reported.
The proposal would make it a secondary offense to drive while using a hand-held phone – meaning a person would have to be pulled over for another violation before they could be ticketed for talking on the phone. Violators would face a fine between $20 and $100.
Emergency calls would be exempted.
The bill will be considered when Kentucky lawmakers return to the Capitol for the regular session that begins in January.
Marcotte said he feels public sentiment is behind him. In a mail survey he sent out to constituents this year, 62 percent of respondents said that banning hand-held cell phone use in vehicles was “essential to highway safety,” the newspaper reported.
The proposal would make it a secondary offense to drive while using a hand-held phone – meaning a person would have to be pulled over for another violation before they could be ticketed for talking on the phone. Violators would face a fine between $20 and $100.
Emergency calls would be exempted.