HB474 Alabama 2024 Session

Summary

Primary Sponsor

Allen Treadaway Representative

Republican

Session

Regular Session 2024

Title

Motor vehicles, exhibition driving, further provided; automated traffic enforcement system, authorized to be used to detect and record violations; impoundment period, further provided

Description

Under existing law, a person is prohibited from engaging in exhibition driving when on a public road, off street parking facility, or other parcel of public or private property, without the consent of the owner of that property. Exhibition driving includes motor vehicle speed contests, exhibitions of speed, sideshows, burnouts, donuts, and other reckless driving maneuvers.

This bill would authorize any local governing body to enforce the prohibition against exhibition driving through the use of automated photographic or video traffic enforcement systems that have the ability to record violations.

This bill would provide that if a violation is observed by a traffic enforcement officer or recorded by an automated traffic enforcement system, the vehicle may be impounded for a minimum of 48 hours.

This bill would also provide that a violation may be committed if a person gives consent for another person to use his or her motor vehicle to commit a violation.

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Subjects

Motor Vehicles & Traffic