SB149 Alabama 2022 Session

This bill would authorize any Class municipality to adopt an ordinance providing for automated traffic civil enforcement of red light violations, stop sign violations, and speeding violations

Relating to any Class 1 municipality; authorizing automated traffic safety law enforcement in any Class municipality, as a civil violation; providing certain procedures to be followed by the municipality using automated photographic traffic enforcement; providing that the owner of a vehicle involved in running a traffic light, 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.