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     STATE OF RHODE ISLAND

IN GENERAL ASSEMBLY

JANUARY SESSION, A.D. 2024

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A N   A C T

RELATING TO MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- AUTOMATED SCHOOL-ZONE-

SPEED-ENFORCEMENT SYSTEM ACT OF 2016

     Introduced By: Representatives Dawson, McGaw, Knight, and McEntee

     Date Introduced: February 02, 2024

     Referred To: House State Government & Elections

     (Dept. of Transportation)

It is enacted by the General Assembly as follows:

     SECTION 1. Section 31-41.3-4 of the General Laws in Chapter 31-41.3 entitled

"Automated School-Zone-Speed-Enforcement System Act of 2016" is hereby amended to read as

follows:

     31-41.3-4. Automated school-zone-speed-enforcement system operational

requirements and certification.

     No automated school-zone-speed-enforcement system shall be used in the state of Rhode

Island unless the system has been approved and certified for use in the state by the director of the

department of transportation. The director of the department of transportation, in cooperation with

the state police, shall require that any automated school-zone-speed-enforcement system approved

and certified for use in the state of Rhode Island meets the following requirements:

     (1) All automated school-zone-speed-enforcement systems operated under this chapter

shall record the speed of vehicles within plus or minus one mile per hour of the actual speed.

     (2) All automated school-zone-speed-enforcement systems operated under this chapter

shall record at least two (2) photographic images of the vehicle exceeding the speed limit, one of

which shall include the license plate attached to the rear of the vehicle.

     (3) All automated school-zone-speed-enforcement systems operated under this chapter

shall, at the time of violation, imprint upon the photographic images of vehicles exceeding the

speed limit:

     (i) The date and time of the violation; and

     (ii) The identity of the street, or school zone being monitored, and location upon that street,

or within that school zone, including the direction of travel and lane of travel; this requirement may

be met with code designations; and

     (iii) The posted or lawfully designated speed limit for the street or school zone being

monitored; and

     (iv) The monitored speed of the vehicle identified in the photographic images as exceeding

the posted or lawfully designated school zone speed limit; and

     (v) The consecutive event number of each photograph taken.

     (4) At least one hundred feet (100′) prior to entering an automated school-zone area where

a speed-enforcement system is being operated, and on each approach to that area, four (4) signs,

each measuring three feet (3′) in height by four feet (4′) in width, or four feet (4') in height by three

feet (3') in width, shall be erected in locations where the view is unobstructed, warning motorists

that they will be entering an area monitored by an automated speed-zone-enforcement system and

that violators of speed limitations may be prosecuted. The automated school-zone-speed-

enforcement system shall be operational only from seven o’clock a.m. (7:00 a.m.) to six o’clock

p.m. (6:00 p.m.) on school days of the promulgated one-hundred-eighty-day (180) school calendar

year adopted in the applicable community.

     (5) It shall be the vendor’s responsibility to furnish an annual report with all pertinent data

to the speaker of the house and the senate president.

     SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon passage.

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EXPLANATION

BY THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL

OF

A N   A C T

RELATING TO MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- AUTOMATED SCHOOL-ZONE-

SPEED-ENFORCEMENT SYSTEM ACT OF 2016

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     This act would amend the provision relative to the measurements for signs identifying

school zone areas with speed enforcement systems.

     This act would take effect upon passage.

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