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SB8 Alabama 2012 Session

Updated Jul 25, 2021

Summary

Primary Sponsor
Gerald O. Dial
Republican
Session
Regular Session 2012
Title
Motor vehicles, speed limits, local law enforcement officers being prohibited from enforcing speed limits on Interstates and in police jurisdiction, provisions deleted, Act 2010-564, 2010 Reg. Sess. am'd.; Sec. 32-5A-171 am'd.
Description

Under existing law, a law enforcement officer of an incorporated municipality with less than 19,000 inhabitants is prohibited from enforcing any speed limit set by general law on any interstate highway.

Existing law provides that any law enforcement officer of a municipality can enforce any speed limit set by general law inside the corporate limits of the municipality but cannot enforce the speed limit within the police jurisdiction of the municipality.

This bill would delete both of these provisions.

Subjects
Motor Vehicles

Bill Actions

Read for the first time and referred to the House of Representatives committee on Public Safety and Homeland Security

Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass adopted Roll Call 72

Third Reading Passed

Reported from Governmental Affairs as Favorable

Read for the first time and referred to the Senate committee on Governmental Affairs

Bill Text

Votes

Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass

February 16, 2012 Senate Passed
Yes 21
No 1
Absent 13

Documents

Source: Alabama Legislature