HB196 Alabama 2015 Session
Summary
- Primary Sponsor
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Jimmy MartinRepublican - Session
- Regular Session 2015
- Title
- Municipalities with population less than 19,000, auth. to enforce speed limits on interstate highways, provision repealed, Sec. 32-5A-171 am'd.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 repeal both of these provisions.
- Subjects
- Municipalities
Bill Actions
Indefinitely Postponed
Pending third reading on day 19 Favorable from Public Safety and Homeland Security with 1 substitute and 1 amendment
Public Safety and Homeland Security first Amendment Offered
Read for the second time and placed on the calendar with 1 substitute and 1 amendment
Read for the first time and referred to the House of Representatives committee on Public Safety and Homeland Security
Bill Text
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Source: Alabama Legislature