SB401 Alabama 2016 Session

Relating to the City of Bessemer, Alabama, in Jefferson County; authorizing automated traffic safety law enforcement in the City of Bessemer, Alabama, as a civil violation; providing certain procedures to be followed by the City using automated photographic traffic enforcement; providing that the owner of the vehicle involved in running a traffic light, stop sign, or violating the speed limit in the City of Bessemer is presumptively liable for a civil violation and the payment of a specified fine, but providing procedures to contest liability; providing for jurisdiction in Jefferson County and the City of Bessemer over such civil violations and allowing petitions for judicial review in the Jefferson County Circuit Court for trial de novo; creating a cause of action for any person held responsible for payment of the fine against the person who was actually operating a vehicle during the commission of a civil violation defined in this act.