Legislation Summaries

This bill has the potential to increase the effectiveness of collection of parking citation forfeitures through circuit or municipal courts.

This bill permits circuit courts and municipal courts to suspend the operating privilege of a person solely because the person has not paid a forfeiture imposed for an ordinance violation (potentially a parking citation) unrelated to the operation of a motor vehicle.

Under current law, circuit courts and municipal courts may suspend a person's motor vehicle operating privilege for a variety of reasons, including failure to pay an amount ordered by the court.  The suspension orders are forwarded to the department of transportation (DOT), which updates the person's driving record to reflect the suspension.  However under current law, courts are not permitted to suspend a person's operating privilege solely because of the person's failure to pay a forfeiture imposed for an ordinance violation unrelated to the operation of a motor vehicle.

Senate Bill 59

SB 43 is still being considered.  The proposed legislation relieves vehicle lessors from liability for parking citations if the lessor identifies the renter or lessee and the renter or lessee pays the forfeiture or appears in  court, of if more than on year has elapsed since the citation was issued.  It also relinquishes enforcement agencies right to suspend registration of a vehicle if a citation is not paid.  This is good for care rental agencies and vehicle lessors because they have no direct control over the vehicle's use.  However, it makes it harder for enforcement agencies to do their job.

This bill establishes a requirement that headlamps, tail lamps, and clearance lamps of a vehicle must be lighted whenever it is raining, snowing, sleeting, or hailing, or any other time when visibility is impaired by inclement weather condition.

This bill authorizes the department of transportation to make aid payments to a local professional football stadium district for the development, construction, reconstruction, or improvement of bridges, highways, parking lots, garages, transportation facilities, or other functionally related or auxiliary facilities or structures associated with any home stadium of a professional football team.

Assembly Bill 9

Assembly Bill 82

Senate Bill 43

Assembly Bill 87 was introduced in February, 2001 under the sponsorship of Representatives Schneider and Boyle.  This bill would change existing state law to prohibit university and technical college systems from enforcing any parking regulation, other than disabled spaces during the time period before and after the end of semesters.

Assembly Bill 87