This bill would establish the Alabama Work Zone Safety Act as a pilot program subject to automatic sunset to authorize the Alabama Department of Transportation and Alabama Toll Road, Bridge, and Tunnel Authority to procure, install, and operate an automated photographic speed enforcement system in one segment of interstate highway declared to be a work zone. The Department of Transportation and Alabama State Law Enforcement Agency would be required to prepare a report that studies whether the pilot program is effective in increasing the safety of work zones. This bill would authorize the Alabama State Law Enforcement Agency to procure and use a photographic speed enforcement device in a work zone on the public highways of the state. This bill would establish a process for the issuance and enforcement of civil traffic citations to the owners of motor vehicles recorded exceeding 10 miles per hour over the posted speed limit in a work zone.

Statutes affected:
Introduced: 41-16-53, 39-2-2