Opinion No. Oag 53-80, (1980)

DARWIN L. ZWIEG, District Attorney Clark County

You request advice regarding the territorial limits of police traffic operations. Specifically, you ask "whether the territory for Clark County police operations is co-extensive with venue of the Clark County [Circuit] Court." This inquiry is prompted by the dilemma of highways whose center lines form the boundary between counties and the resultant question of whether traffic officers from one county may ticket motorists traveling on that part of the highway outside the officers' county and whether the officers may park their patrol vehicles in…