00                            SENATE BILL NO. 261                                                                         
01 "An Act relating to the designation of traffic safety corridors; relating to the bail or fine                           
02 for an offense committed in a traffic safety corridor and to separately accounting for                                  
03 such fines; and providing for an effective date."                                                                       
04 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF ALASKA:                                                                
05    * Section 1.  AS 19.10 is amended by adding a new section to read:                                                 
06            Sec. 19.10.075. Designation of traffic safety corridors. (a) To promote traffic                            
07       safety, the department may designate portions of a highway to be a traffic safety                                 
08       corridor by posting signs at the beginning and end of the corridor. A motor vehicle or                            
09       traffic offense committed within a traffic safety corridor is subject to double fines as                          
10       provided in AS 28.40.070. A claim for damages may not be made against the state or                                
11       its officers, employees, or agents for an act or omission relating to the designation and                         
12       posting of a traffic safety corridor.                                                                             
13            (b)  The legislature may appropriate 50 percent of the fines for offenses                                    
14       committed in a traffic safety corridor imposed under AS 28.40.070, and collected and                              

01       separately accounted for by the state under AS 37.05.142, to the Department of                                    
02       Transportation and Public Facilities, highway safety planning agency, for highway                                 
03       safety programs.                                                                                                  
04    * Sec. 2. AS 28.05.151(d) is amended to read:                                                                      
05            (d)  The supreme court, in establishing scheduled amounts of bail under this                                 
06       section, and each municipality that establishes or has established a fine schedule under                          
07       this section shall provide that the scheduled amount of bail or fine, as applicable, for a                        
08       motor vehicle or traffic offense that is committed in a highway work zone or in a                             
09       traffic safety corridor shall be double the amount of the bail or fine for the offense if                     
10       it had not been committed in a highway work zone or in a traffic safety corridor.                             
11    * Sec. 3. AS 28.40.070 is amended to read:                                                                         
12            Sec. 28.40.070. Fines for offenses committed within highway work zones                                     
13       and traffic safety corridors doubled. Whenever a person violates a provision of this                          
14       title or a regulation adopted under the authority of this title within a highway work                             
15       zone or within a traffic safety corridor, notwithstanding the amount of the fine or                           
16       the maximum fine set under this title, the fine, or maximum fine, is double the amount                            
17       provided in this title.                                                                                           
18    * Sec. 4. AS 28.40.070 is amended by adding a new subsection to read:                                              
19            (b)  Fines imposed and collected under this section for offenses that are                                    
20       committed in a traffic safety corridor shall be separately accounted for under                                    
21       AS 37.05.142.                                                                                                     
22    * Sec. 5. AS 28.40.100(a) is amended by adding a new paragraph to read:                                            
23                 (27)  "traffic safety corridor" means a portion of a highway posted as a                                
24       traffic safety corridor under AS 19.10.075.                                                                       
25    * Sec. 6. This Act takes effect immediately under AS 01.10.070(c).