As Passed by the House

127th General Assembly Regular Session 2007-2008

Am. H. B. No. 30

Representative McGregor, R. 

Cosponsors: Representatives Adams, Schindel, Seitz, Fessler, Collier, Webster, Aslanides, Bubp, Domenick, Batchelder, Blessing, Carmichael, Coley, Core, Evans, Flowers, Gibbs, Hagan, J., Harwood, Hottinger, Huffman, Hughes, Mandel, Patton, Uecker, Wagoner, Widener 

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A BILL

To enact section 4511.093 of the Revised Code to

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require any local authority that enforces any

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traffic law by means of traffic law

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photo-monitoring devices to erect signs on every

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highway that is not a freeway that is part of the

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state highway system and that enters that local

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authority, informing inbound traffic that the

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local authority utilizes traffic law

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photo-monitoring devices to enforce traffic laws.

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BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF OHIO:

Section 1. That section 4511.093 of the Revised Code be	10
enacted to read as follows:	11

Sec. 4511.093. (A) As used in this section:

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(1) "Local authority" means a municipal corporation, county,	13
or township.	14

(2) "Traffic law photo-monitoring device" means an electronic	15
system consisting of a photographic, video, or electronic camera	16
and a means of sensing the presence of a motor vehicle that	17
automatically produces photographs, videotape, or digital images	18
of the vehicle or its license plate.	19

(B) No local authority shall use traffic law photo-monitoring	20
devices to enforce any traffic law until after it has erected	21
signs on every highway that is not a freeway that is part of the	22
state highway system and that enters that local authority. The	23
signs shall inform inbound traffic that the local authority	24
utilizes traffic law photo-monitoring devices to enforce traffic	25
laws. The signs shall be erected within the first three hundred	26
feet of the boundary of the local authority or, if the signs	27
cannot be located within the first three hundred feet of the	28
boundary of the local authority, as close to that distance as	29
possible, and the local authority is responsible for all costs	30
associated with the erection, maintenance, and replacement, if	31
necessary, of the signs. All signs erected under this division	32
shall conform in size, color, location, and content to standards	33
contained in the manual adopted by the department of	34
transportation pursuant to section 4511.09 of the Revised Code	35
and shall remain in place for as long as the local authority	36
utilizes traffic law photo-monitoring devices to enforce any	37
traffic law. Any ticket, citation, or summons issued by or on	38
behalf of the local authority for any traffic law violation based	39
upon evidence gathered by a traffic law photo-monitoring device	40
before the signs have been erected is invalid.	41

(C) A local authority that uses traffic law photo-monitoring	42
devices to enforce any traffic law at an intersection where	43
traffic is controlled by traffic control signals that exhibit	44
different colored lights or colored lighted arrows shall conform	45
the timing of the yellow lights and yellow arrows of those traffic	46
control signals to the provisions of the manual adopted by the	47
department of transportation under section 4511.09 of the Revised	48
Code that are applicable to that type of intersection.	49

Section 2. Section 1 of this act takes effect six months	50
after the effective date of this act.	51