BILL NUMBER: AB 1008	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Cook

                        FEBRUARY 18, 2011

   An act to add Section 21455.8 to the Vehicle Code, relating to
vehicles.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1008, as introduced, Cook. Vehicles: automated traffic
enforcement systems.
    Existing law authorizes the limit line, intersection, or other
places where a driver is required to stop to be equipped with an
automated traffic enforcement system, as defined, if the system meets
certain requirements. Existing law authorizes a governmental agency
to contract out the operation of the system under certain
circumstances, except for specified activities, that include, among
other things, establishing guidelines for selection of location. A
violation of the Vehicle Code is a crime.
   This bill would, beginning January 1, 2012, prohibit a local
governmental agency from installing an automated traffic enforcement
system. The bill would authorize a local governmental agency that is
operating an automatic traffic enforcement system on or before that
date to continue to do so after that date only if the agency conducts
a traffic safety study at each intersection where a system is in use
to determine whether the use of the system resulted in a reduction
in the number of traffic accidents at that intersection and the bill
would require the local governmental agency to terminate the use of
an automated traffic enforcement system at an intersection no later
than January 1, 2015, if the traffic safety study shows that the use
of the system did not reduce the number of traffic accidents that
occurred at that intersection.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 21455.8 is added to the Vehicle Code, to read:
   21455.8.  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this code or
any other law, beginning January 1, 2012, a local governmental agency
shall not install an automated traffic enforcement system pursuant
to Section 21455.5.
   (1) A local governmental agency that is operating an automated
traffic enforcement system on or before January 1, 2012, may continue
to operate the automated traffic enforcement system after that date
only if the local governmental agency begins conducting, on or before
February 28, 2011, a traffic safety study at each intersection where
an automated traffic enforcement system is in use to determine
whether the use of the system resulted in a reduction in the number
of traffic accidents at that intersection. The traffic safety study
shall be conducted according to standards consistent with the
analysis of data approved by the federal National Highway Traffic
Safety Administration for automated traffic enforcement systems.
   (2) If the traffic safety study shows that the use of an automated
traffic enforcement system did not reduce the number of traffic
accidents that occurred at an intersection, the local governmental
agency shall terminate the use of the system at that intersection no
later than January 1, 2015.