HB100 Alabama 2010 Session

Updated Jul 26, 2021

House Bill

Enacted

Current Status

Regular Session 2010

Session

Summary

Primary Sponsor: Gregory Canfield
Republican
Co-Sponsors: Paul DeMarco Jack Williams Dickie Drake Allen 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
Description: Under existing law, a municipality may establish a school zone. However, county commissions are not granted specific authority to establish school zones in the unincorporated area of the county.
This bill would authorize a county commission to establish reduced speed school zones along roads or highways except interstate highways outside of the corporate limits of a municipality under certain conditions. This bill would also provide for the maintenance of the signs.
This bill would provide that the fine for a speeding violation in a school zone in a municipality or in the unincorporated area of a county would be doubled as provided for in this bill.
This bill would provide for the distribution of the funds collected from any fines for a violation.
Amendment 621 of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, now appearing as Section 111.05 of the Official Recompilation of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, as amended, prohibits a general law whose purpose or effect would be to require a new or increased expenditure of local funds from becoming effective with regard to a local governmental entity without enactment by a 2/3 vote unless: it comes within one of a number of specified exceptions; it is approved by the affected entity; or the Legislature appropriates funds, or provides a local source of revenue, to the entity for the purpose.
The purpose or effect of this bill would be to require a new or increased expenditure of local funds within the meaning of the amendment. However, the bill does not require approval of a local governmental entity or enactment by a 2/3 vote to become effective because it comes within one of the specified exceptions contained in the amendment.
Subjects: Schools