HB517 Alabama 2018 Session

Summary

Primary Sponsor

Connie C. Rowe

Republican

Session

Regular Session 2018

Title

Jasper, automated traffic safety law enforcement, authorized, provide certain procedures to follow, civil violation

Description

Relating to the City of Jasper, Alabama, in Walker County; to authorize automated traffic safety law enforcement in the City of Jasper, Alabama, as a civil violation; to provide certain procedures to be followed by the city using automated photographic traffic enforcement; to provide that the owner of a vehicle involved in running a traffic light or stop sign or violating the speed limit in the City of Jasper is presumptively liable for a civil violation and the payment of a specified fine; to provide procedures to contest liability; to provide for jurisdiction in Walker County and the City of Jasper over such civil violations; to allow petitions for judicial review in the Walker County Circuit Court for trial de novo; and to create 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 as defined in this act.

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Subjects

Jasper