Relating to automated or remote systems for traffic law enforcement, including by requiring data and alternative measures prior to implementation of such systems and by regulating the use and calibration of certain systems, and including applicability provisions

The state or local authority must also hold no fewer than two public hearings to discuss the data and whether an ATE system is necessary when compared to the ability of alternative measures to improve safety. The state or local authority must make available to any person upon request the data and details of alternative measures required under the bill. The bill makes any citation resulting from an interaction with an ATE system operated in violation of these provisions of the bill void and unenforceable. LOCAL AUTHORITIES. The bill prohibits a local authority from enforcing violations for exceeding the speed limit by less than miles per hour identified through the use of an ATE system if the moneys collected from citations issued from all of the local authority’s ATE systems equal or exceed 250 percent of the municipal infraction and scheduled fine revenue collected by the local authority in the previous fiscal year from traffic citations issued by the local authority’s peace officers or other officials. Under the bill, a violation for exceeding the speed limit by miles per hour or more is always enforceable regardless of whether it is identified by an ATE system. The bill requires a local authority to have its ATE systems examined and calibrated by a qualified person at least every three months. Citations issued by a local authority using an ATE system are void and unenforceable if the violation is for exceeding a speed limit by less than miles per hour and the revenue threshold has been met, or if the ATE system has not been examined and calibrated as required under the bill. These provisions of the bill apply only to local authorities with a population of 12,000 or less, according to the most recent federal decennial census. APPLICABILITY. The bill generally applies to ATE systems on and after July 1, 2022. The provisions of the bill relating to implementation of an ATE system do not apply to an ATE system installed and in operation prior to July 1, 2022, until January 1, 2023. January 1, 2023, is considered the implementation date for such ATE systems.