HB566 Alabama 2010 Session

Relating to the City of Tuscaloosa, Alabama, in Tuscaloosa County; authorizing automated traffic light enforcement in the City of Tuscaloosa, Alabama, as a civil violation; providing certain procedures to be followed by the city using automated photographic traffic light enforcement; providing that the owner of the vehicle involved in running a traffic light is presumptively liable for a civil violation and the payment of a civil fine, but providing procedures to contest liability; providing for jurisdiction in the Tuscaloosa Municipal Court over the civil violations and allowing appeals to the Tuscaloosa County Circuit Court for trial de novo; creating a cause of action for any person held responsible for payment of the civil fine against the person who was actually operating a vehicle during the running of a traffic light; and prohibiting the tampering with a photographic traffic signal enforcement system, except by authorized persons.