Radar Detector Rules

No section of the Code of Alabama mentions a radar detector. The ban that does apply to commercial drivers arrives indirectly: § 32-9A-2(a)(1) makes it an offense to operate a…

A radar detector is lawful in a private vehicle anywhere in Alaska. No provision of the Alaska Statutes regulates one, and 13 AAC 04, the Department of Public Safety's vehicle…

A radar detector is legal in a private vehicle anywhere in Arizona. The state's vehicle equipment article, A.R.S. sections 28-921 through 28-966, names no radar detector, laser jammer…

Arkansas has never written a radar detector law. The phrase does not appear anywhere in the Arkansas Code or in the Code of Arkansas Rules, and neither does any jamming offense. The…

No section of the California Vehicle Code makes it an offense for a private motorist to own, carry or use a radar detector. The prohibition in Vehicle Code section 28150 reaches only…

A passenger-car driver in Colorado may use a radar detector. Nothing in title 42 regulates one: the word "detector" does not appear anywhere in the Vehicles and Traffic title. What…

Connecticut does not simply leave radar detectors unregulated. CGS § 14-137(a) gives the Commissioner of Motor Vehicles broad power to limit the use of any device or accessory on a…

Nothing in Title 21 of the Delaware Code prohibits a radar detector in a private passenger vehicle. The one Delaware prohibition arrives indirectly: 21 Del. C. § 4702(a) adopts 49…

The District bans radar detectors outright. 18 DCMR § 736 makes it an offence both to sell or offer one for sale in the District and to use or have one in your possession in an…

A driver of a private passenger vehicle may use a radar detector in Florida. No section of the Florida Statutes prohibits owning, carrying or operating one, and chapter 316, which…

No section of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated mentions radar detectors. A full-text search of the Code for the phrase returns zero documents, and searches for jamming and jammer…

The word radar does not appear anywhere in the Idaho Code, and neither does laser, speed measuring device or any equivalent. Idaho Code § 49-902(1) makes it unlawful to drive a vehicle…

A radar detector is legal in an ordinary Illinois passenger car. The only detector ban in the Illinois Vehicle Code, 625 ILCS 5/12-714, reaches a driver who operates or is in actual…

Indiana has never enacted a radar detector prohibition. A full text search of the 2026 Indiana Code, all 36 title files published by the General Assembly, returns the word radar nine…

The word detector does not appear anywhere in Iowa Code chapter 321. What Iowa outlaws is the speed detection jamming device, defined in Iowa Code section 321.232(4)(a) as equipment…

No Kansas statute mentions radar detectors. A full-text search of the Kansas Statutes Annotated for "radar" returns a single section, K.S.A. 28-826, which merely defines a military…

A radar detector is legal in a private car in Kentucky. The Kentucky Revised Statutes contain no prohibition on owning, mounting or using one, and the word detector does not appear…

A radar detector is legal in a private vehicle in Louisiana. The word radar appears in only three sections of the entire Revised Statutes, and every one of them is about equipment used…

Maine has no statute prohibiting radar detectors in private passenger vehicles. A full-text search of the Maine Revised Statutes returns no section using the phrase radar detector, and…

A radar or laser detector is lawful in a private vehicle in Maryland. The Transportation Article devotes an entire title to vehicle equipment, Title 22, and across its sections from §…

Nothing in the Massachusetts General Laws prohibits a radar detector in a private car. A full-text search of the General Laws returns no hit at all for radar detector, speed measuring…

Radar detectors are legal in a private vehicle in Michigan, and the state says so in the statute rather than by silence. MCL 750.508 restricts carrying a police-frequency radio…

Minnesota has never written a radar detector statute. A full-text search of the 2025 Minnesota Statutes on the Revisor of Statutes site returns zero occurrences of the phrase "radar…

Mississippi has no radar detector law. The phrase radar detector appears nowhere in the Mississippi Code, and no provision bans owning, mounting or using one in a private vehicle. What…

Missouri has no radar detector law. A full-text search of the Revised Statutes of Missouri returns no section containing the phrase radar detector, and the single statute anywhere in…

No section of the Montana Code prohibits owning, mounting or using a radar detector in a private vehicle. Title 61, chapter 9, the vehicle equipment chapter, contains no reference to a…

Nebraska's device statute, Neb. Rev. Stat. 60-6,274 to 60-6,277, reaches a radar transmission device, which section 60-6,274(1) defines as a mechanism designed to interfere with the…

Nevada traffic law says nothing whatever about radar detectors. The word does not appear in NRS chapters 484A through 484E, which together are the whole of the state traffic code, nor…

The word radar does not appear anywhere in the New Hampshire Revised Statutes. The General Court's own full-text search of the RSAs returns zero sections for radar and zero for radar…

New Jersey has no statute prohibiting a radar detector in a private passenger vehicle. A full-text search of the New Jersey statutes returns no provision on radar detectors at all, and…

New York does not ban radar detectors in private passenger cars. Vehicle and Traffic Law section 397-a prohibits using a radar or laser detector only in a motor vehicle with a gross…

North Carolina has no statute regulating radar detectors in a private passenger vehicle. The words radar and detector appear nowhere in the 868 sections of Chapter 20, the Motor…

The phrase radar detector does not appear anywhere in the North Dakota Century Code. A full-text scan of all 2,531 chapters turns up exactly two provisions using the word radar, and…

Ohio does not prohibit radar detectors in private passenger vehicles. A full-text search of the Ohio Revised Code for the phrase returns no records, and the word radar appears in only…

A radar detector is lawful in an ordinary Oklahoma passenger car. The only Oklahoma statute that reaches detectors, 47 O.S. Section 11-808.1, is written entirely around the commercial…

Oregon has no statute that prohibits owning, carrying or operating a radar or laser detector in a private passenger vehicle. The Oregon Vehicle Code regulates the officer's speed…

A radar detector is legal in a private passenger vehicle in Pennsylvania. The full text of Title 75, the Vehicle Code, contains no occurrence of the word "detector" at all, and the…

Rhode Island has never legislated about radar detectors in passenger cars. The word radar does not appear anywhere in the Motor and Other Vehicles title, the Criminal Offenses title or…

A radar or laser detector is lawful in a private passenger vehicle in South Carolina. The phrase radar detector appears nowhere in the S.C. Code of Laws, and the word radar itself…

Nothing in South Dakota law prohibits a radar detector in a private passenger vehicle. The words radar and detector appear nowhere in SDCL Title 32, the state's motor vehicle title…

A radar detector is legal to own, carry and use in a private passenger vehicle in Tennessee. A full text search of the Tennessee Code returns no provision using the phrase "radar…

Texas does not prohibit owning, mounting or using a radar detector in a private passenger vehicle. The one radar offense in the vehicle equipment chapter, Transportation Code Section…

A radar detector is legal in a private vehicle in Utah. The Utah Code contains no provision on radar detectors at all; what it does contain is Section 41-6a-609, which prohibits radar…

A radar detector is legal in a private car in Vermont. The words radar detector appear nowhere in Title 23, the motor vehicle title, across all 27 of its chapters, and nowhere in Title…

Virginia prohibits radar and laser detectors outright in every private vehicle. Va. Code 46.2-1079 makes it unlawful to operate a car equipped with any passive or active device that…

Nothing in Washington law restricts a radar detector in a private passenger vehicle. Chapter 46.37 RCW, the vehicle equipment chapter that fixes fog lamp mounting heights to the inch…

Nothing in the West Virginia Code prohibits a radar detector in a private car. The ban is in an administrative rule and it reaches only commercial vehicles: 150 CSR 9-4.25, the Public…

A radar detector is lawful in a private car in Wisconsin. The phrase "radar detector" appears nowhere in the Wisconsin Statutes or the Wisconsin Administrative Code, and the equipment…

A full-text search of all forty-five titles of the Wyoming Statutes returns no occurrence of radar, no speed measuring device provision and no detector prohibition of any kind. Wyoming…