Bill > S0812

Introduced Session

An act relating to traffic infraction enforcement; amending s. 316.003, F.S.; defining the term “railroad traffic infraction detector”; amending s. 316.008, F.S.; authorizing counties and municipalities to use railroad traffic infraction detectors for a certain purpose; authorizing counties and municipalities to place or install, or contract with a vendor to place or install, railroad traffic infraction detectors at certain locations; requiring a county or municipality to enact a certain ordinance before the county or municipality may place or install a railroad traffic infraction detector; specifying requirements for a public hearing for such ordinance; amending s. 316.0776, F.S.; authorizing the placement or installation of traffic infraction detectors at certain railroad crossings with permission from the railroad owner; defining the term “work zone area”; authorizing the Department of Transportation to enforce a posted speed limit in a work zone area through the use of a speed detection system; authorizing the department to place or install, or contract with a vendor to place or install, speed detection systems at certain locations; requiring the department to install certain signage and develop and maintain a certain website; requiring the department to make a public announcement and conduct a public awareness campaign in certain circumstances; specifying requirements for such campaign; authorizing the placement or installation of railroad traffic infraction detectors at certain locations in certain circumstances; requiring the department to establish certain specifications by a specified date; requiring the department, a county, or a municipality to install certain signage in certain circumstances; requiring the signage to meet certain specifications; creating s. 316.1578, F.S.; authorizing the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles, a county, or a municipality to authorize a traffic infraction enforcement officer to issue a traffic citation for certain violations; requiring that certain notification be sent to the registered owner of a motor vehicle within a certain period; specifying requirements for such notification; authorizing a person who receives such notice to request an administrative hearing within a certain period; defining the term “person”; providing that a request for such hearing waives any challenge or dispute as to the delivery of the notice of violation; requiring that a traffic citation be issued in a certain manner under certain circumstances; providing that the initiation of a proceeding to challenge such citation waives any challenge or dispute as to the delivery of the citation; requiring that a traffic citation include notice of a certain presumption; providing that the owner of a motor vehicle involved in a certain violation is responsible and liable for paying a uniform traffic citation except in certain circumstances; requiring the owner of a motor vehicle to provide an affidavit to an appropriate governmental entity in certain circumstances; requiring the governmental entity to dismiss a citation in certain circumstances; authorizing the governmental entity to issue a certain notice of violation to a person designated in such an affidavit as having care, custody, or control of the motor vehicle; providing that the affidavit is admissible in certain proceedings; providing criminal penalties for the submission of a false affidavit; providing that certain images or video is evidence of a violation and admissible in certain proceedings; providing a rebuttable presumption; requiring that certain penalties assessed and collected by the department, a county, or a municipality be paid to the Department of Revenue weekly; providing for the remittance and distribution of certain fines in a specified manner; prohibiting an individual from receiving certain commissions; prohibiting a manufacturer or vendor of a railroad traffic infraction detector from receiving certain fees or remuneration; amending s. 316.1894, F.S.; conforming a cross-reference; amending s. 316.1896, F.S.; providing that the Department of Transportation may authorize a traffic infraction enforcement officer to issue uniform traffic citations for certain violations in work zone areas; requiring that such violation be evidenced by a speed detection system; providing construction; requiring the department to provide certain notice to the registered owner of a motor vehicle involved in such violation within a certain period; specifying requirements for such notice; requiring that penalties assessed and collected by the department’s transportation infraction enforcement officers be paid to the Department of Revenue weekly by electronic funds transfer; providing for the remittance and use of such penalties in a specified manner; requiring the registered owner of a motor vehicle to provide an affidavit to the Department of Transportation in certain circumstances; specifying requirements for such affidavit; requiring the department to dismiss a citation in certain circumstances; requiring the department to issue a certain notice of violation to a person identified in such an affidavit in certain circumstances; specifying requirements for certain hearings; requiring the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles to provide to the Department of Transportation a certain model form; prohibiting the use of a speed detection system in a work zone area for remote surveillance; providing that certain recorded video and photographs collected in a work zone area may only be used for certain purposes; requiring the vendor of a speed detection system to provide to the department certain written notice annually by a specified date; providing that registered motor vehicle owner information obtained as a result of certain operations in a work zone area is not the property of certain entities and may only be used for certain purposes; requiring the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles to consult with the Department of Transportation on certain legislative recommendations; amending s. 316.1906, F.S.; revising the definition of the term “traffic infraction enforcement officer”; amending s. 316.306, F.S.; conforming a cross-reference; amending s. 316.640, F.S.; revising the purposes for which the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles may designate employees as traffic infraction enforcement officers; amending s. 318.18, F.S.; requiring a person cited for a certain violation in a work zone area to pay a specified fine in certain circumstances; requiring such fine to be remitted to the Department of Revenue and used for certain purposes; conforming a cross reference; creating s. 348.025, F.S.; defining the terms “speed detection system” and “work zone area”; authorizing an expressway authority to enforce the posted speed limit in a work zone area through the use of a speed detection system; requiring the Department of Transportation to enter into a certain agreement with an expressway authority in certain circumstances; amending s. 351.03, F.S.; authorizing a county or municipality to place or install a railroad traffic infraction detector at a railroad-highway grade crossing for a certain purpose; amending s. 655.960, F.S.; conforming a cross-reference; providing an effective date.

Alexis Calatayud (R)*, 

Indefinitely postponed and withdrawn from consideration (on 05/03/2025)

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