HB446 Alabama 2012 Session

Updated Jul 25, 2021

Summary

Primary Sponsor: Lesley Vance
Republican
Co-Sponsors: Mike Hill Mac McCutcheon
Session: Regular Session 2012
Title: School buses, automated civil enforcement of school bus violations, county and city boards of education may initiate and enforce, district and municipal courts, county and city law enforcement.
Description: This bill would enable county and municipal boards of education to initiate civil enforcement of offenses related to overtaking a school bus by using automated detection devices, and allowing a civil notice of violation to be issued by mail. It would provide that the owner of the vehicle is presumptively responsible but provide procedures to transfer responsibility or to contest the notice of violation. District and municipal courts would be granted subject matter jurisdiction to adjudicate the civil notice. The bill would provide for appeals. Civil fines would be authorized. Any person who becomes responsible for payment of the civil fine would not have the violation entered on the driver's history, not suffer other adverse consequences so long as the civil fine is timely paid, and insurance companies could not use a violation to set or change insurance rates. Failure to timely pay a civil fine would result in civil collection efforts by a county or a municipal board of education.
Subjects: School Bus Violations

Read for the first time and referred to the House of Representatives committee on Judiciary