kpmartin@watmath.UUCP (Kevin Martin) (01/18/85)
This is the section of the Highway Traffic that forbids them.
Revised Statutes of Ontario, Chapter 198, Section 61:
(1) In this section, "radar warning device" means any device or equipment
designed or intended for use in a motor vehicle to warn the driver of
the presence of radar speed measuring equipment in the vicinity and
includes any device or equipment designed or intended for use in a
motor vehicle to interfere with the transmissions of radar speed
measuring equipment.
(2) No person shall drive on a highway a motor vehicle that is
equipped with or that carries or contains a radar warning device.
(3) A police officer may at any time, without a warrant, stop, enter
and search a motor vehicle that he has reasonable grounds to believe
is equipped with or carries or contains a radar warning device
contrary to subsection (2) and may seize and take away any radar
warning device found in or upon the motor vehicle.
(4) Where a person is convicted of an offence under this section, any
device seized under subsection (3) by means of which the offence was
committed if forfeited to the Crown.
(5) Every person who contravenes subsection (2) is guilty of an
offence and on conviction is liable to a fine of not less than $50 and
not more than $500.
(6) Subsection (2) does not apply to a person who is transporting
radar warning devices in sealed packages in a motor vehicle from a
manufacturer to a consignee.
(7) No person shall sell, offer or advertise for sale a radar warning
device by retail.
(8) Every person who contravenes subsection (7) is guilty of an
offence and on conviction is liable,
(a) for a first offence, to a fine of not more than $1000; and
(b) for each subsequent offence, to a fine not more than $5000.
As to the comments that the FCC allows reception of any broadcast EM
radiation (or was that any EM radiation at all), I don't think that is
relevant.
There is probably a federal regulation that allows you to get drunk,
but that doesn't mean you can be driving a car at the same time.
Likewise, although you are allowed to detect speed traps, you can't do
this while in a car.
If you want federal legal permission to operate a radar detector while
driving a car, make sure the law protects both the right to detect
speed traps *and* the right to drive anytime.
Kevin Martin