By: Mallory Caraway H.B. No. 4240
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the authority of the governing body of a local authority
to impose a civil penalty for certain violations recorded by a
photographic traffic signal enforcement system.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 707.002, Transportation Code, is amended
to read as follows:
Sec. 707.002. AUTHORITY TO PROVIDE FOR CIVIL PENALTY. (a)
The governing body of a local authority by ordinance may implement a
photographic traffic signal enforcement system and except as
provided by Subsection (b), provide that the owner of a motor
vehicle is liable to the local authority for a civil penalty if,
while facing only a steady red signal displayed by an electrically
operated traffic-control signal located in the local authority, the
vehicle is operated in violation of the instructions of that
traffic-control signal, as specified by Section 544.007(d).
(b) An ordinance adopted under Subsection (a) may not
provide for the imposition of a civil penalty if the vehicle was
turning right or left at an intersection and failed to stop at a
stop line or before entering the crosswalk on the near side of the
intersection.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2009.