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HB411
BLL5QJJ-1
By Representatives Stringer, Brown
RFD: Public Safety and Homeland Security
First Read: 06-Mar-25
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First Read: 06-Mar-25
SYNOPSIS:
This bill would establish an affirmative defense
against a civil action for damages for personal injury,
wrongful death, or property damage sustained while
obstructing traffic on a street, highway, bridge, or
road under certain conditions.
A BILL
TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
Relating to civil practice; to establish an affirmative
defense relating to the damages incurred while obstructing
traffic on a street, highway, bridge, or road under certain
conditions; and to further provide for the procedure of such
actions.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF ALABAMA:
Section 1. (a) In a civil action for damages for
personal injury, wrongful death, or property damage, it is an
affirmative defense that the action arose from an injury or
damage sustained by an individual who willfully obstructed the
free, convenient, and normal use of any public street,
highway, bridge, or road by doing any of the following:
(1) Impeding, hindering, stifling, or restraining
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(1) Impeding, hindering, stifling, or restraining
traffic or passage on the street, highway, bridge, or road.
(2) Standing on or remaining in the street, highway,
bridge, or road.
(3) Endangering the safe movement of vehicles or
pedestrians traveling on the street, highway, bridge, or road.
(b) In a civil action in which a defendant raises an
affirmative defense under this section, the court, on motion
by the defendant, shall stay the action during the pendency of
any criminal action the factual basis of which forms the
factual basis for the defense.
Section 2. This act shall become effective on October
1, 2025.
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