SB534 Alabama 2012 Session

Updated Jul 25, 2021

Summary

Primary Sponsor: Mark Slade Blackwell
Republican
Session: Regular Session 2012
Title: City of Irondale, motor vehicles, automated traffic infraction device, use of red 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
Description: Relating to the City of Irondale, Alabama; authorizing automated traffic camera enforcement in the city limits of Irondale as a civil violation by the adoption of a municipal ordinance consistent with this act; providing certain procedures to be followed by Irondale; providing that the owner of the vehicle involved in violation of a traffic law 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 municipal court of Irondale over the civil violations and allowing appeals to the Jefferson 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 violation of a traffic law; and prohibiting the tampering with a photographic traffic signal enforcement system, except by authorized persons.
Subjects: Irondale