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H. B. No. 143 As Introduced
As Introduced
128th General Assembly | Regular Session | 2009-2010 |
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Cosponsors:
Representatives Batchelder, Mandel, Huffman, Adams, J., Evans, Uecker, Grossman, Stebelton, Amstutz, Jordan, Hall, Maag, Martin, Mecklenborg, Wachtmann, Bubp
A BILL
To amend section 4511.094 and to enact section
4511.095 of the Revised Code to
prohibit the use
by the State Highway Patrol, counties, and
townships of traffic law photo-monitoring devices.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF OHIO:
Section 1.
That section 4511.094 be amended and section
4511.095 of the Revised Code be
enacted to read as follows:
Sec. 4511.094. (A) As used in this section:
(1) "Local authority" means a municipal corporation, county,
or township.
(2) "Traffic, "traffic law photo-monitoring device" means an
electronic
system consisting of a photographic, video, or
electronic camera
and a means of sensing the presence of a motor
vehicle that
automatically produces photographs, videotape, or
digital images
of the vehicle or its license plate.
(B)(1) No local authority municipal corporation shall use
traffic law
photo-monitoring
devices to enforce any traffic law
until after
it has erected
signs on every highway that is not a
freeway that
is part of the
state
highway system and that
enters that local
authority municipal corporation. The
signs
shall inform inbound traffic that the local
authority
municipal
corporation utilizes
traffic law photo-monitoring devices to
enforce traffic
laws. The
signs shall be erected within the
first three hundred
feet of the
boundary of the local authority
municipal corporation or, if the signs
cannot be located within
the first three hundred
feet of the
boundary of the local
authority municipal corporation, as close to that
distance as
possible, provided that if a particular highway
enters and exits
the territory of a local authority municipal corporation multiple
times, the local authority municipal corporation shall erect the
signs as required by
this division at the locations in each
direction of travel where
inbound traffic on the highway first
enters the territory of the
local authority municipal corporation
and is not required to erect additional signs
along such highway
each time the highway reenters the territory of
the local
authority municipal corporation. The local authority municipal
corporation is
responsible for all
costs
associated with the
erection,
maintenance, and
replacement, if
necessary, of the
signs. All
signs erected under
this division
shall conform in
size, color,
location, and
content to standards
contained in
the manual adopted
by the
department of
transportation pursuant
to section 4511.09 of
the
Revised Code
and shall remain in
place for as long as the
local
authority
municipal corporation
utilizes traffic law photo-monitoring devices to
enforce any
traffic law. Any ticket, citation, or summons issued
by or on
behalf of the local authority municipal corporation for any
traffic law
violation based
upon evidence gathered by a traffic
law
photo-monitoring device after the effective date of this
section
March 12, 2009,
but
before the signs have been erected
is
invalid; provided that
no ticket, citation, or summons is
invalid
if the local authority
municipal corporation is in
substantial compliance with the
requirement of this division
to
erect the signs.
(2) A local authority municipal corporation is deemed to be
in substantial
compliance with the requirement of division (B)(1)
of this section
to erect the advisory signs if the authority
municipal corporation does both of the
following:
(a) First erects all signs as required by division (B)(1) of
this section and subsequently maintains and replaces the signs as
needed so that at all times at least ninety per cent of the
required signs are in place and functional;
(b) Annually documents and upon request certifies its
compliance with division (B)(2)(a) of this section.
(C) A local authority municipal corporation that uses traffic
law photo-monitoring
devices to enforce any traffic law at an
intersection where
traffic is controlled by traffic control
signals that exhibit
different colored lights or colored lighted
arrows shall time
the
operation of the yellow lights and yellow
arrows of those traffic
control signals so that the steady yellow
indication exceeds by
one second the minimum duration for yellow
indicators at similar
intersections as established by the
provisions of the manual
adopted by the
department of
transportation under section 4511.09
of the Revised
Code.
Sec. 4511.095. (A) As used in this section:
(1) "Law enforcement agency" means the state highway patrol
and any law enforcement agency of a local authority.
(2) "Law enforcement officer" means a state highway patrol
trooper and any law enforcement officer employed by a law
enforcement agency of a local authority.
(3) "Local authority" means a county
or township.
(4) "Traffic law photo-monitoring device" means an electronic
system consisting of a photographic, video, or electronic camera
and a means of sensing the presence of a motor vehicle that
automatically produces photographs, videotape, or digital images
of the vehicle or its license plate.
(B)(1) Except as provided in division (B)(2) of this section,
no law enforcement agency shall use a traffic law photo-monitoring
device to determine compliance with, or to detect a violation of,
any provision of the Revised Code that
governs or regulates the
operation of motor vehicles.
(2) Division (B)(1) of this section does not apply to the use
of a traffic law photo-monitoring device
when a law enforcement
officer is present at the location of the traffic law
photo-monitoring device and issues tickets, citations, or
summonses at the general time and general location of the traffic
law violations.
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