HB100 Alabama 2010 Session

Summary

Primary Sponsor

Gregory Canfield

Republican

Co-Sponsors

Paul DeMarcoJack WilliamsDickie DrakeAllen Treadaway

Session

Regular Session 2010

Title

Schools in unincorporated areas of county, reduced speed school zones on roads and highways established, signs required, Transportation Department to provide signs on state highways, fines doubled, County and Municipal Reduced Speed School Zone Act

Summary

HB100 creates reduced-speed school zones outside city limits, sets a 20 mph limit in those zones, doubles fines for violations, and specifies signage and funding rules.

What This Bill Does

The bill lets county commissions designate reduced-speed school zones on roads outside municipalities, including state-maintained roads in the county. The zone covers 300 feet on each side of the school and applies during school hours when children are present, or for about 30 minutes before and after. Vehicles must not exceed 20 mph in the zone, and fines for violations are doubled; signs warn drivers of the doubled fines and applicable times, and enforcement is required. Funds from these fines go to the county or municipal road funds, and signs are maintained by the county on county roads and by the state DOT on state roads within the county.

Who It Affects

• Drivers operating vehicles in designated reduced-speed school zones must slow to 20 mph during active school times and may face doubled fines for violations.
• Counties (outside municipalities) can establish these zones, maintain signs on county roads, have signs on state roads maintained by the state DOT, and route collected fines to local road funds.

Key Provisions

• Establishes reduced-speed school zones for schools outside municipal limits, including along state-maintained roads within the county (not including interstates).
• Defines a reduced speed zone as 300 feet on either side of the school and sets a 20 mph limit during school hours when children are present or for about 30 minutes before/after school hours.
• Requires signs warning of the reduced speed and the times; end signs indicate where normal speed resumes; signs must follow the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices.
• Maintains signs on county roads by the county; maintains signs on state roads by the State Department of Transportation.
• Doubling of fines for traffic violations within a school zone; signs warn that fines are doubled only during posted times.
• Proceeds from fines are paid into the local public road and bridge funds (county) or the municipality’s treasury.
• Effective date is the first day of the third month after passage/approval; conflicts with other laws are repealed insofar as they conflict with this act.

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Subjects

Schools