HB578 Alabama 2011 Session

Updated Jan 10, 2026

Summary

Primary Sponsor: Kurt Wallace
Republican
Session: Regular Session 2011
Title: Motor vehicles, speed limits, local law enforcement officers being prohibited from enforcing speed limits on Interstates within police jurisdiction, provisions deleted, Act 2010-564, 2010 Reg. Sess. am'd.; Sec. 32-5A-171 am'd.
Description: Under existing law, a law enforcement officer of an incorporated municipality with less than 19,000 inhabitants is prohibited from enforcing any speed limit set by general law on any interstate highway.
Existing law provides that any law enforcement officer of a municipality can enforce any speed limit set by general law inside the corporate limits of the municipality but cannot enforce the speed limit within the police jurisdiction of the municipality.
This bill would delete both of these provisions.
Subjects: Motor Vehicles

Read for the first time and referred to the House of Representatives committee on Public Safety and Homeland Security