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Class 1 municipality (B'ham), photo traffic enforcement of stop signs and speeding, civil fines, procedures
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
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.
Subjects
Class 1 Municipalities
Bill Actions
Action Date
Chamber
Action
February 24, 2022
H
Read for the first time and referred to the House of Representatives committee on Jefferson County Legislation
February 24, 2022
S
Engrossed
February 24, 2022
S
Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass adopted Roll Call 416
February 24, 2022
S
Smitherman motion to Adopt adopted Roll Call 415
February 24, 2022
S
Jefferson County Legislation Amendment Offered
February 24, 2022
S
Third Reading Passed
February 23, 2022
S
Read for the second time and placed on the calendar 1 amendment
February 17, 2022
S
Read for the first time and referred to the Senate committee on Jefferson County Legislation