SB144 Alabama 2014 Session

This bill would enable county and municipal boards of education to approve in their jurisdiction a process of civil enforcement of offenses related to overtaking a school bus by using automated detection devices, and allowing a civil notice of violation to be issued by mail. It would provide that the owner of the vehicle is presumptively responsible but provide procedures to transfer responsibility or to contest the notice of violation

This bill would allow a law enforcement agency or a local governing entity, in consultation with a school system, to enter an agreement with a private contractor for the installation, operation, notice processing, and administration of a school bus automated device

This bill would grant subject matter jurisdiction to district and municipal courts to adjudicate the civil notice

This bill would provide procedures for civil action taken pursuant to this act

This bill would provide for the destruction of all images and other recorded information within certain time periods

This bill would provide for appeals

This bill would authorize civil fines

This bill would provide that a person who becomes responsible for payment of the civil fine would not have the violation entered on his or her driver's history and not suffer other adverse consequences if the civil fine is timely paid

This bill would provide that insurance companies could not use a violation to set or change insurance rates

This bill would provide that failure to timely pay a civil fine would result in civil collection efforts by a county or a municipal board of education

Authorizing automated enforcement related to overtaking a school bus in counties and municipalities as a civil offense; authorizing a county or municipal board of education to approve, in their respective jurisdiction, a civil process of automated detection device of a school bus violation enforcement; requiring certain procedures to be followed by a county or municipal board of education using automated school bus enforcement; making the owner of the vehicle involved in a violation presumptively responsible for payment of a civil fine, but providing procedures to contest responsibility or transfer responsibility to another person; providing for jurisdiction in district courts and in municipal courts over the civil offenses; providing for procedures for administrating this act; allowing a law enforcement agency or a local governing entity to enter agreements with contractors providing automated devices; providing for the destruction of recorded information after certain time periods; and allowing appeals to the circuit court.