SB33 Alabama 2011 Session

Summary

Primary Sponsor

Cam Ward

Republican

Co-Sponsors

Jimmy HolleyGerald O. Dial

Session

Regular Session 2011

Title

Motor vehicles, speed limits, local law enforcement officers being prohibited from enforcing speed limits on Interstates and in 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.

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Subjects

Motor Vehicles