State Sen. Chris Elliott is sponsoring a bill to amend a 43-year-old law extending municipal police and planning jurisdictions beyond city corporate limits.
Currently, police jurisdictions of municipalities with more than 6,000 people extend for three miles beyond their corporate limits while the police jurisdictions of municipalities with fewer than 6,000 people extend for one and one-half miles. Planning jurisdictions of all municipalities extend five miles beyond their corporate limits.
Under Elliott’s proposal, both police and planning jurisdictions would be restricted to municipal boundaries.
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Elliott introduces bill to roll back extraterritorial jurisdictions - Lagniappe Mobile