Legality of Radar Detectors

The radar detector serves as an alarm whenever there are police near them. Radar detectors are legal in many cities and states in the United States. But this does not mean that radar detector units are legal in all of the states in the US.

Here are some of the states that deem radar detectors illegal:

- The usage of radar detectors are prohibited in the Commonwealth of Virginia. They have laws banning the use of radar detectors. Not only are radar detectors illegal to use in Virginia, they are also illegal to have in the vehicle.

- Radar detectors and radar jammers are illegal in the District of Columbia. The passing of their laws to ban the use of radar detectors was set in 1995.

- In Illinois, radar detectors are only regulated in commercial vehicles of over 26,001 pounds.

- On US military bases, they are legal to have but illegal to use.

- Radar jammers are illegal in the states of Utah, California, Oklahoma, Colorado and Nebraska.

- Radar detectors are not specifically regulated, but things hanging from windshields are not permitted in the state of Minnesota.

- For motor vehicles over 18,000 pounds and any other commercial motor vehicles over 10,000 pounds in New York, radar detectors are illegal.

The state of Connecticut on the contrary has cancelled its anti-radar detector law in 1998 which make this radar detector now legal in this state.