SB546 Alabama 2012 Session

Sponsors

Session

Regular Session 2012

Title

City of Vestavia Hills, 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

<p class="bill_entitled_an_act"> Relating to the City of Vestavia Hills, Alabama; authorizing automated traffic camera enforcement in the city limits of Vestavia Hills as a civil violation by the adoption of a municipal ordinance consistent with this act; providing certain procedures to be followed by Vestavia Hills; 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 Vestavia Hills 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. </p>

Subjects

Jefferson County