2016 Regular Session ENROLLED
SENATE BILL NO. 357
BY SENATOR CARTER
1 AN ACT
2 To enact R.S. 32:44, relative to red light cameras; to require notification of red light camera
3 locations; to provide for definitions; and to provide for related matters.
4 Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:
5 Section 1. R.S. 32:44 is hereby enacted to read as follows:
6 ยง44. Required notification for red light cameras
7 A. Local municipal authorities or local parish authorities shall post signs,
8 indicating that a red light camera is present, within five hundred feet of each
9 red light camera, in such a manner as to be clearly visible to traffic approaching
10 the red light camera.
11 B.(1) Failure of a municipal or parish authority to comply with
12 Subsection A of this Section shall prohibit the use of any photographic or video
13 images collected by the red light camera to impose or collect any civil or
14 criminal fine, fee, or penalty by or on behalf of the municipal or parish
15 authority.
16 (2) In any proceeding to collect a civil or criminal fine, fee, or penalty by
17 or on behalf of a municipal or parish authority, a rebuttable presumption shall
18 exist that signs were posted in accordance with Subsection A of this Section.
19 C. For the purposes of this Section, "red light camera" means a device
20 installed at an intersection designed to collect photographic or video evidence
21 of alleged traffic violations by recording images that depict the license plate or
22 other identifying feature of a motor vehicle that is not operated in compliance
23 with instruction of a traffic control signal or a posted traffic sign.
PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE
SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF LOUISIANA
APPROVED:
ACT No. 348
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