HB71 Alabama 2010 Session

Summary

Primary Sponsor

Jim McClendon

Republican

Session

Regular Session 2010

Title

Transportation Department and county commissions authorized to designate safety zones in sections of highways with numerous accidents, posting of signs, penalties

Description

This bill would authorize the State Department of Transportation and county commissions to designate as “safety zones” sections of highways and roads where there have occurred a number of serious motor vehicle accidents in which excessive speed was a contributing factor. The bill would define serious motor vehicle accidents as accidents resulting in fatality or serious bodily injury, including pedestrians. Drivers convicted of excessive speed in a safety zone would be assessed an additional fine of $100 over and above the fine prescribed by law outside the safety zone.

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.

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Subjects

Transportation Department