00                     CS FOR SENATE BILL NO. 235(CRA)                                                                    
01 "An Act relating to municipal regulation of automated traffic safety cameras."                                          
02 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF ALASKA:                                                                
03    * Section 1. AS 29.10.200 is amended by adding a new paragraph to read:                                            
04                 (68)  AS 29.35.143 (regulation of automated traffic safety cameras).                                    
05    * Sec. 2. AS 29.35 is amended by adding a new section to read:                                                     
06            Sec. 29.35.143. Automated traffic safety cameras. (a) A municipality with a                                
07       population of 25,000 or more may not ban the use of automated traffic safety cameras.                             
08            (b)  This section applies to home rule and general law municipalities.                                     
09            (c)  In this section, "automated traffic safety camera" means a device that uses                             
10 a vehicle sensor installed to work in conjunction with an intersection traffic control                                  
11 system, a railroad grade crossing control system, or a speed measuring device, and a                                    
12 camera synchronized to automatically record one or more sequential photographs or                                       
13 electronic images of the front or rear of a motor vehicle at the time the vehicle fails to                              
14 stop when facing a steady red traffic control signal or an activated railroad grade                                     
15 crossing control signal, or exceeds a speed limit as detected by a speed measuring                                      

01       device.