SB237 Alabama 2022 Session

Sponsors

Session

Regular Session 2022

Title

Class 1 municipality (B'ham), photo traffic enforcement of stop signs and speeding, civil fines, procedures

Description

<p class="bill_description"> This bill would authorize any Class municipality to adopt an ordinance providing for automated traffic civil enforcement of stop sign violations and speeding violations</p><p class="bill_entitled_an_act"> Relating to any Class 1 municipality; authorizing automated traffic safety law enforcement of stop sign violations and speed limit violations in any Class municipality, as civil violations; providing certain procedures to be followed by the municipality using automated photographic traffic enforcement; providing that the owner of the vehicle involved in running a stop sign, or violating the speed limit in the municipality is presumptively liable for a civil violation and the payment of a specified fine, but providing procedures to contest liability; providing for jurisdiction in the county where the Class 1 municipality is located and in the Class 1 municipality over the civil violations and allowing petitions for judicial review in the circuit court of the county where the Class 1 municipality is located 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. </p>

Subjects

Class 1 Municipalities