HB255 Alabama 2019 Session

Existing law authorizes the Alabama Toll Road, Bridge and Tunnel Authority, the Department of Transportation, and private toll entities to collect a toll fee by using a system capable of charging an account holder the required toll fee by transmission of information from an electronic toll collection device on a motor vehicle. Existing law also authorizes the authority, department, and private toll entities to issue to the owner or operator of a vehicle a notice to pay toll when the vehicle passes through a toll collection point without payment of the required toll and no account is available to which a charge may be applied

This bill would further provide for the process of issuing notice to pay a toll and would authorize the non-renewal of the vehicle registration for vehicles whose owners fail to pay the required toll and administrative fees associated with the collection of the toll. The bill would also establish a procedure for the appeal of a vehicle registration hold

Existing law authorizes the Department of Transportation to enter into reciprocal agreements with other states and jurisdictions regarding the enforcement of toll enforcement

This bill would authorize the Department of Transportation and the Alabama Toll Road, Bridge and Tunnel Authority to enter into those reciprocal agreements and would also authorize the agreements to include vehicle registration non-renewal provisions

Relating to the Electronic Toll Collection Act; to amend Sections 23-2-167, 23-2-168, 23-2-169, 23-2-172, 23-2-173, and 23-2-175, Code of Alabama 1975, to provide further for the process and assessment of administrative fees for unpaid toll violations; to provide for the non-renewal of vehicle registration for failure to pay a toll violation or assessed administrative fees; and to further provide for reciprocal agreements with other states or jurisdictions.