HB575 Alabama 2012 Session

Updated Jul 25, 2021

House Bill

Enacted

Current Status

Regular Session 2012

Session

Sponsor

Summary

Primary Sponsor: Lesley Vance
Republican
Session: Regular Session 2012
Title: Phenix City, motor vehicles, automated photographic traffic light enforcement authorized, procedures, posting of informational signs, civil fines and court costs, additional court costs for record keeping by Criminal Justice Information Center, appeals, penalties for intentional tampering with device, Phenix City Red Light Safety Act
Description: Relating to the City of Phenix City, Alabama, in Russell and Lee Counties; authorizing automated traffic light enforcement in the City of Phenix City, Alabama, 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 Russell County and the Phenix City Municipal Court over the civil violations and allowing appeals to the Russell 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: Russell County