SB91 Alabama 2015 Session

Updated Feb 27, 2026

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Summary

Primary Sponsor: Gerald O. Dial
Republican
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 to enforce speed limits on interstate highways, provision repealed, Sec. 32-5A-171 am'd.
Summary: SB91 would let municipal police officers enforce general speed limits on interstate highways, removing population-based and jurisdiction-based restrictions.
What This Bill Does
The bill repeals two existing restrictions on who can enforce interstate speed limits. It eliminates the rule that municipalities with fewer than 19,000 inhabitants cannot enforce interstate speed limits. It also removes the limit that a municipal officer can enforce speed limits only within the city's corporate limits and not in the police jurisdiction. As a result, municipal officers could enforce interstate speed limits within their police jurisdictions and regardless of the municipality's population.

Who It Affects
Municipal law enforcement officers in all incorporated Alabama municipalities would gain authority to enforce interstate speed limits (including within their police jurisdictions).
Motorists traveling on Alabama interstates, particularly in areas served by municipal police, may face enforcement by municipal officers where allowed.
Smaller municipalities (those with fewer than 19,000 inhabitants) would gain the ability to enforce interstate speed limits, a change from current restrictions.
Municipal police departments would have expanded enforcement authority beyond the previous corporate-limits restriction.

Key Provisions
Repeal the provision that prohibits municipal officers from enforcing interstate speed limits in municipalities with fewer than 19,000 inhabitants.
Repeal the provision that prohibits enforcement of interstate speed limits outside the municipality's corporate limits, i.e., within the police jurisdiction.

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Subjects: Municipalities