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SB560 Alabama 2010 Session

Updated Jul 26, 2021

Summary

Session
Regular Session 2010
Title
Center Point, motor vehicles, automated traffic infraction device, use for red light enforcement authorized, procedures, posting of informational signs, civil fines, record keeping by Criminal Justice Information Center, appeals, tampering with photographic traffic signal enforcement system, prohibited, Center Point Red Light Safety Act
Description
Relating to the City of Center Point, Alabama, in Jefferson County; authorizing automated traffic light enforcement in the city 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 Center Point Municipal Court over the civil violations and allowing appeals to the Jefferson 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.

Bill Actions

Read for the first time and referred to the House of Representatives committee on Jefferson County Legislation

Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass adopted Roll Call 978

Third Reading Passed

Read for the second time and placed on the calendar

Read for the first time and referred to the Senate committee on Local Legislation No. 2

Bill Text

Votes

Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass

April 13, 2010 Senate Passed
Yes 25
No 1
Abstained 4
Absent 5

Documents

Source: Alabama Legislature