2017 Regular Session ENROLLED
SENATE BILL NO. 154
BY SENATOR CARTER AND REPRESENTATIVES BAGNERIS, BOUIE, GARY
CARTER, COX, GLOVER, JIMMY HARRIS, HILFERTY, TERRY
LANDRY, LEGER, MARCELLE, MORENO, PIERRE, STAGNI AND
THIBAUT
Prefiled pursuant to Article III, Section 2(A)(4)(b)(i) of the Constitution of Louisiana.
1 AN ACT
2 To enact R.S. 32:45, relative to traffic; to require posting notification of a mobile speed
3 camera; and to provide for related matters.
4 Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:
5 Section 1. R.S. 32:45 is hereby enacted to read as follows:
6 ยง45. Required notification for mobile speed camera
7 A. Local municipal authorities or local parish authorities shall post signs
8 indicating that a mobile speed camera is present. The sign shall be posted no
9 less than two hundred fifty feet and no more than five hundred feet of the
10 location of each mobile speed camera in such a manner as to be clearly visible,
11 not obstructed by any barrier, equipment, vegetation, or other object, and shall
12 be easily viewable by drivers approaching the speed camera. The sign shall
13 comply with the current manual and specifications adopted by the Department
14 of Transportation and Development pursuant to R.S. 32:235.
15 B.(1) Failure of a municipal or parish authority to comply with
16 Subsection A of this Section shall prohibit the use of any photographic or video
17 images collected by the speed camera to impose or collect any civil or criminal
18 fine, fee, or penalty by or on behalf of the municipal or parish authority.
19 (2) In any proceeding to collect a civil or criminal fine, fee, or penalty by
20 or on behalf of a municipal or parish authority, a rebuttable presumption shall
21 exist that signs were posted in accordance with Subsection A of this Section.
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1 C. For the purposes of this Section, "mobile speed camera" means a
2 device designed to collect photographic or video evidence of an alleged violation
3 of a posted speed limit by recording images that depict the license plate or other
4 identifying feature of a motor vehicle that is not operated in compliance with a
5 posted speed limit sign.
PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE
SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF LOUISIANA
APPROVED:
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