A. The State Legislature hereby occupies and preempts the entire field of legislation in this state touching in any way inattentive driving and cellular phone usage in automobiles to the complete exclusion of any order, ordinance or regulation by any municipality or other political subdivision of this state. Any existing or future orders, ordinances, or regulations in this field, except as provided for in subsection B of this section, are null and void.
B. Nothing contained in this section shall prohibit any order, ordinance or regulation of any municipality from enacting and enforcing laws prohibiting and penalizing conduct prohibited under provisions of this act, but the provisions of such order, ordinance or regulation by a municipality shall not be more stringent than those of this act.
Added by Laws 2001, c. 153, § 1. Renumbered from § 11-901a of this title by Laws 2002, c. 397, § 35, eff. Nov. 1, 2002.