1997 Florida Code
TITLE XVI EDUCATION
Chapter 240 Postsecondary Education
PART II STATE UNIVERSITY SYSTEM (ss. 240.2011-240.2996)
240.263 Regulation of traffic at universities; definitions.
240.263 Regulation of traffic at universities; definitions.--
(1) In construing ss. 240.263-240.268:
(a) "Traffic," when used as a noun, means the use or occupancy of, and the movement in, on, or over, streets, ways, walks, roads, alleys, and parking areas by vehicles, pedestrians, or ridden or herded animals.
(b) "Adjacent municipality" means a municipality which is contiguous or adjacent to, or which contains within its boundaries all or part of the grounds of, a university; except that, if the grounds of a university are not within or contiguous to a municipality, "adjacent municipality" means the county seat of the county which contains within its boundaries all or part of the grounds of the university.
(c) "Grounds" includes all of the campus and grounds of the university, whether it be the campus proper or outlying or noncontiguous land of the university within the county.
(d) "Law enforcement officers" include municipal police, patrol officers, traffic officers, sheriffs, deputies, highway patrol officers, and county traffic officers assigned to duty on the grounds of the university, as well as campus police, traffic officers, guards, parking patrollers, and other noncommissioned personnel designated for traffic purposes by the university.
(e) "University traffic infraction" means a noncriminal violation of university parking and traffic rules which is not included under s. 318.14 or s. 318.17 or any municipal ordinance, which is not punishable by incarceration, and for which there is no right to trial by jury or to court-appointed counsel.
(f) "Traffic authority" means an individual or a group of individuals at each university, authorized and appointed by the president of the university to adjudicate university traffic infractions.
(2) A traffic rule shall be deemed promulgated when adopted by the individual institution.
History.--s. 1, ch. 29723, 1955; s. 18, ch. 65-130; s. 1, ch. 67-481; ss. 15, 35, ch. 69-106; s. 1, ch. 77-58; s. 33, ch. 79-222; s. 41, ch. 95-148.
Note.--Former s. 239.53.
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