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2024 Regular Session
HOUSE BILL NO. 652
BY REPRESENTATIVE DESHOTEL
TRAFFIC/SPEED LIMITS: Provides relative to automated speed enforcement devices
1 AN ACT
2To amend and reenact R.S. 32:43(B) and (C) and 44(A) and to enact R.S. 32:43(D), relative
3 to automated speed enforcement devices; to require that certain automated speed
4 enforcement devices capture a picture of the driver to impose penalties; to provide
5 an effective date; to provide for visible signage; and to provide for related matters.
6Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:
7 Section 1. R.S. 32:43(B) and (C) and 44(A) are hereby amended and reenacted and
8R.S. 32:43(D) is hereby enacted to read as follows:
9 §43. Automated speed enforcement devices; prohibition
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11 B.(1) Any automated speed enforcement device authorized by a local
12 municipal authority or local parish authority that is not in conflict with the provisions
13 of Paragraph (A)(1) of this Section shall produce photographic evidence of the driver
14 of the vehicle.
15 (2) Effective January 1, 2025, local municipal authorities or local parish
16 authorities shall not impose or collect any civil or criminal fine, fee, or penalty as a
17 result of an image produced by an automated speed enforcement device in violation
18 of this Section.
19 C. For the purposes of this Section, the term "automated speed enforcement
20 device" means an unmanned or handheld camera or optical device installed to work
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1 in conjunction with a traffic control signal or radar speed detection equipment, or
2 both, and designed to collect photographic evidence of alleged traffic violations for
3 the issuance of traffic citations by recording images that depict the license plate or
4 other identifying feature of a motor vehicle not in compliance with instruction of a
5 traffic control signal or posted traffic sign.
6 C. D. Effective January 1, 2015, local municipal authorities or local parish
7 authorities shall not impose or collect any civil or criminal fine, fee, or penalty as a
8 result of an image produced by an automated speed enforcement device in violation
9 of this Section.
10 §44. Required notification for red light cameras and automated speed enforcement
11 devices
12 A. Local municipal authorities or local parish authorities shall post large and
13 visible signs in both directions, indicating that a red light camera or automated speed
14 enforcement device is present, within five hundred feet of each red light camera or
15 automated speed enforcement device, in such a manner as to be clearly visible to
16 traffic approaching the red light camera or automated speed enforcement.
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DIGEST
The digest printed below was prepared by House Legislative Services. It constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument. The keyword, one-liner, abstract, and digest do not constitute
part of the law or proof or indicia of legislative intent. [R.S. 1:13(B) and 24:177(E)]
HB 652 Original 2024 Regular Session Deshotel
Abstract: Requires that automated speed enforcement devices authorized by a local
municipal authority produce pictures of the driver to impose penalties.
Present law prohibits local municipal authorities from installing or utilizing automated speed
enforcement devices to regulate traffic on interstate roads within their corporate or territorial
limits.
Present law excludes highway construction zones, where work is being performed by the
Department of Transportation and Development (DOTD) or a private contractor under
contract with the DOTD, where construction workers are present. Exempts local municipal
and parish authorities.
Present law defines "automated speed enforcement device" as an unmanned or handheld
camera or optical device installed to work in conjunction with a traffic control signal or radar
speed detection equipment, or both, and designed to collect photographic evidence of alleged
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traffic violations for the issuance of traffic citations by recording images that depict the
license plate or other identifying feature of a motor vehicle not in compliance with
instruction of a traffic control signal or posted traffic sign.
Proposed law allows any automated speed enforcement device authorized by a local
municipal authority or local parish authority that is not in conflict with the provisions of
present law to produce photographic evidence of the driver of the vehicle.
Proposed law specifies that Jan. 1, 2025, local municipal authorities or local parish
authorities cannot impose or collect any civil or criminal fine, fee, or penalty as a result of
an image produced by an automated speed enforcement device in violation of proposed law.
Present law requires municipal authorities or local parish authorities to post signs, indicating
that a red light camera is present, within 500 feet of each red light camera, in a manner as
clearly visible to traffic approaching the red light camera.
Proposed law adds speed automated devices to present law and requires be large and visible
signs in both directions to indicate that red light cameras or automatic speed devices are
present.
(Amends R.S. 32:43(B) and (C) and 44(A); Adds R.S. 32:43(D))
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