00                            HOUSE BILL NO. 181                                                                          
01 "An Act relating to traffic offenses and traffic offenses committed in a school zone; and                               
02 providing for an effective date."                                                                                       
03 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF ALASKA:                                                                
04    * Section 1. 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, school                             
09       zone, or traffic safety corridor shall be double the amount of the bail or fine for the                       
10       offense if it had not been committed in a highway work zone, school zone, or traffic                          
11       safety corridor.                                                                                                  
12    * Sec. 2. AS 28.15.221 is amended by adding a new subsection to read:                                              
13            (d)  The regulations adopted under (a) of this section must include a provision                              
14       that a person who commits a moving violation in a school zone shall be assessed                                   

01       double the points normally assessed for that violation in a school zone if the violation                          
02       is the person's second or subsequent moving violation in a school zone.                                           
03    * Sec. 3. AS 28.90.010(c) is amended to read:                                                                      
04            (c)  Unless otherwise specified by law a person convicted of a violation of a                                
05       regulation adopted under this title, or a municipal ordinance regulating vehicles or                              
06       traffic when the municipal ordinance does not correspond to a provision of this title, is                         
07       guilty of an infraction and is punishable by a fine not to exceed $1,000 [$300].                              
08    * Sec. 4. AS 28.90.990(a) is amended by adding a new paragraph to read:                                            
09                 (29)  "school zone" means, while a school speed limit is in effect as                                   
10       indicated on a school speed limit sign, the area of a highway between an official                                 
11       school speed limit sign and (A) the official sign that terminates the school speed limit                          
12       zone, or (B) if there is no sign terminating the school zone, the sign marking the                                
13       beginning of the school speed limit for opposing traffic; if there is no sign marking the                         
14       end of a school speed limit zone as provided in (A) or (B) of this paragraph, a school                            
15       zone ends 500 feet following the sign marking the beginning of the school zone or the                             
16       last marked school crosswalk, whichever extends further.                                                          
17    * Sec. 5. 13 AAC 02.325(d) and 13 AAC 03.325(d) are annulled.                                                      
18    * Sec. 6. This Act takes effect July 1, 2007.