Bill Title: To prohibit the use of traffic law photo-monitoring devices by municipal corporations, counties, townships, and the State Highway Patrol to detect traffic signal light and speed limit violations, except in certain circumstances.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 18-4)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2013-06-27 - To State Government Oversight & Reform
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As Passed by the House
130th General Assembly | Regular Session | 2013-2014 |
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Representatives Maag, Mallory
Cosponsors:
Representatives Adams, J., Becker, Blessing, Buchy, Dovilla, Hood, Huffman, Milkovich, Ramos, Burkley, Conditt, Johnson, Lynch, Reece, Retherford, Roegner, Terhar, Thompson, Young Speaker Batchelder
A BILL
| To enact section 4511.095 and to repeal sections | 1 |
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4511.092 and 4511.094 of the Revised Code to | 2 |
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prohibit the use of traffic law photo-monitoring | 3 |
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devices by municipal corporations, counties, | 4 |
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townships, and the State Highway Patrol to detect | 5 |
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traffic signal light and speed limit violations, | 6 |
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except in certain circumstances. | 7 |
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF OHIO:
Section 1. That section 4511.095 of the Revised Code be | 8 |
enacted to read as follows: | 9 |
Sec. 4511.095. (A) Section 34 of Article II, Ohio | 10 |
Constitution, provides that laws may be passed providing for the | 11 |
comfort, health, safety and general welfare of all employees. The | 12 |
general assembly finds these ends will be served by enacting | 13 |
legislation that prohibits the use of traffic law photo-monitoring | 14 |
devices. Therefore, in furtherance of the ends provided in Section | 15 |
34 of Article II, Ohio Constitution, the general assembly hereby | 16 |
enacts this section of the Revised Code. | 17 |
(B) As used in this section: | 18 |
(1) "Local authority" means a municipal corporation, county, | 19 |
or township. | 20 |
(2) "Traffic law photo-monitoring device" means an electronic | 21 |
system consisting of a photographic, video, or electronic camera | 22 |
and a means of sensing the presence of a motor vehicle that | 23 |
automatically produces photographs, videotape, or digital images | 24 |
of the vehicle or its license plate. | 25 |
(C) (1) Except as provided in division (C)(2) of this | 26 |
section, no local authority or the state highway patrol, utilizing | 27 |
either its own employees, those of another public entity, or those | 28 |
of a private entity, shall use a traffic law photo-monitoring | 29 |
device to determine compliance with, or to detect a violation of, | 30 |
section 4511.13 or 4511.21 of the Revised Code or a substantially | 31 |
equivalent municipal ordinance or county or township resolution. | 32 |
(2) A local authority may use a traffic law photo-monitoring | 33 |
device to determine compliance with, or to detect a violation of, | 34 |
section 4511.21 of the Revised Code or a substantially equivalent | 35 |
municipal ordinance or county or township resolution within a | 36 |
school zone during school recess and while children are going to | 37 |
or leaving school during opening or closing hours only if a law | 38 |
enforcement officer employed by the local authority is present at | 39 |
the location of the traffic law photo-monitoring device. | 40 |
Section 2. That sections 4511.092 and 4511.094 of the | 41 |
Revised Code are hereby repealed. | 42 |