Bill Text: TX HB537 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to traffic engineering studies on photographic traffic signal enforcement systems.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-02-20 - Referred to Transportation [HB537 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB537-Introduced.html
By: Murphy | H.B. No. 537 |
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relating to traffic engineering studies on photographic traffic | ||
signal enforcement systems. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 707.003, Transportation Code, is amended | ||
by adding Subsection (d-1) and amending Subsections (e) and (f) to | ||
read as follows: | ||
(d-1) At least once every five years after installing a | ||
photographic traffic signal enforcement system at an intersection | ||
approach, the local authority shall: | ||
(1) contract with an independent engineering firm to | ||
conduct a traffic engineering study of the approach to determine | ||
whether, in addition to or as an alternative to the system, a design | ||
change to the approach or a change in the signalization of the | ||
intersection is likely to reduce the number of red light violations | ||
at the intersection; and | ||
(2) report the results of the study as required by | ||
Subsection (e). | ||
(e) A local authority shall report results of the traffic | ||
engineering study required by Subsection (c) or (d-1) to a citizen | ||
advisory committee consisting of one person appointed by each | ||
member of the governing body of the local authority. The committee | ||
shall advise the local authority on the installation and operation | ||
of a photographic traffic signal enforcement system established | ||
under this chapter. | ||
(f) A local authority may not impose a civil penalty under | ||
this chapter on the owner of a motor vehicle if the local authority | ||
violates Subsection (b) | ||
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SECTION 2. Notwithstanding Section 707.003(d-1), | ||
Transportation Code, as added by this Act, a local authority is not | ||
required to comply with that section for a photographic traffic | ||
signal enforcement system installed before September 1, 2015, until | ||
September 1, 2020. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. |