SB91 Alabama 2015 Session

Sponsors

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 to enforce speed limits on interstate highways, provision repealed, Sec. 32-5A-171 am'd.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

<p class="bill_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</p><p class="bill_description"> 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</p><p class="bill_description"> This bill would repeal both of these provisions</p><p class="bill_entitled_an_act"> To amend Section 32-5A-171, Code of Alabama 1975, relating to maximum speed limits; to repeal the provision relating to the enforcement of speed limits on interstate highways by certain municipal law enforcement officers; and to repeal the provision prohibiting municipal law enforcement officers from enforcing speed limits on interstate highways within the police jurisdiction of the municipality. </p>

Subjects

Municipalities