HB548 Alabama 2012 Session

Updated Jul 25, 2021

Summary

Primary Sponsor: Napoleon BracyRepresentative
Democrat
Session: Regular Session 2012
Title: Prichard, 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, Prichard Red Light Safety Act
Description: Relating to the City of Prichard in Mobile 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 Prichard Municipal Court over the civil violations and allowing appeals to the Mobile 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.
Subjects: Mobile County

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