On 26 Apr 98, concerning _AMATEUR_, Carl Brown said to Pete Hopping in 
SCANRADIO:
 PH>> The prohibition is the actual presence of the scanner in the car. It h
 CB>
 CB> This must be local ordinances only.  I don't believe it is illegal to
 CB> have one in a car in every state.  Why would scanner manufacturers make
 CB> mobile units then if it was prohibited?
It's local.  In my area, for example, there are no state or county statutes 
about having scanners in vehicles, but a couple of cities do not allow the 
operation of a scanner in a vehicle.  This is not often enforced, and might 
only come up if you're stopped for some other reason.  In Chattanooga the 
city council voted down a law that would have allowed cops to stop people 
just to check for seatbelt violations, so you can understand that cops aren't 
going to go around stopping people just because of an extra antenna.
Some people tell me that laws against having scanners in vehicles are common 
in the US, others tell me that they're very uncommon but have a lot of vocal 
opponents who exaggerate.  Ads for radar detectors say that they can't ship 
to a list of 3 or 4 states where they aren't legal, but some people carry on 
like half the states in the union have outlawed them, so I don't really know. 
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