Bill Text: CA AB1008 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Amended

California Assembly Bill 1008 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Vehicles: automated traffic enforcement systems.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-02-01 - Died pursuant to Art. IV, Sec. 10(c) of the Constitution. From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56. [AB1008 Detail]

Download: California-2011-AB1008-Amended.html

BILL NUMBER: AB 1008	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 4, 2011

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Cook

                        FEBRUARY 18, 2011

   An act to add Section 21455.8 to the Vehicle Code, relating to
vehicles.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1008, as amended, Cook. Vehicles: automated traffic enforcement
systems.
    Existing law authorizes the limit line, intersection, or other
places where a driver is required to stop to be equipped with an
automated traffic enforcement system, as defined, if the system meets
certain requirements. Existing law authorizes a governmental agency
to contract out the operation of the system under certain
circumstances, except for specified activities, that include, among
other things, establishing guidelines for selection of location. A
violation of the Vehicle Code is a crime.
   This bill would, beginning January 1, 2012, prohibit a local
governmental agency from installing an automated traffic enforcement
system. The bill would authorize a local governmental agency that is
operating an automatic traffic enforcement system on or before that
date to continue to do so after that date only if the agency 
conducts   begins conducting  a traffic safety
study  on or before February 28, 2012,  at each intersection
where a system is in use to determine whether the use of the system
resulted in a reduction in the number of traffic accidents at that
intersection  and the   . The  bill would
require the local governmental agency to terminate the use of an
automated traffic enforcement system at an intersection no later than
January 1, 2015, if the traffic safety study shows that the use of
the system did not reduce the number of traffic accidents that
occurred at that intersection.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 21455.8 is added to the Vehicle Code, to read:
   21455.8.  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this code or
any other law, beginning January 1, 2012, a local governmental agency
shall not install an automated traffic enforcement system pursuant
to Section 21455.5. 
   (1) 
    (b  )  A local governmental agency that is
operating an automated traffic enforcement system on or before
January 1, 2012, may continue to operate the automated traffic
enforcement system after that date only if the local governmental
agency begins conducting, on or before February 28,  2011
  2012  , a traffic safety study at each
intersection where an automated traffic enforcement system is in use
to determine whether the use of the system resulted in a reduction in
the number of traffic accidents at that intersection. The traffic
safety study shall be conducted according to standards consistent
with the analysis of data approved by the federal National Highway
Traffic Safety Administration for automated traffic enforcement
systems. 
   (2) 
    (c   )  If the traffic safety study shows that
the use of an automated traffic enforcement system did not reduce the
number of traffic accidents that occurred at an intersection, the
local governmental agency shall terminate the use of the system at
that intersection no later than January 1, 2015.