AUTOMATED TRAFFIC SAFETY CAMERAS

Plain English Breakdown

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State Regulation of Automated Traffic Safety Cameras

This bill gives the state of Alaska the authority to regulate automated traffic safety cameras and prevents cities from banning them unless a specific law allows it.

What This Bill Does

• Reserves the power to regulate automated traffic safety cameras for the state government.
• Stops municipalities from passing laws that ban these cameras, except where specifically allowed by statute.
• Defines what counts as an automated traffic safety camera in Alaska law.
• Applies new rules to both home rule and general law cities.

Who It Names or Affects

• Home rule municipalities
• General law municipalities

Terms To Know

Automated traffic safety camera

A device that uses a vehicle sensor and a synchronized camera to automatically record photos or electronic images of the front or rear of a motor vehicle when it fails to stop for a red light, ignores an activated railroad crossing signal, or exceeds a speed limit.

Municipality

A city or town with its own local government laws.

Limits and Unknowns

• The official text does not state when the bill will officially take effect.
• The law defines the cameras but does not list specific rules for how they must be used by drivers or police beyond preventing bans.

Official Summary Text

AUTOMATED TRAFFIC SAFETY CAMERAS
An Act relating to municipal regulation of automated traffic safety cameras.

Current Bill Text

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HOUSE BILL NO. 282

IN THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF ALASKA

THIRTY-FOURTH LEGISLATURE - SECOND SESSION

BY REPRESENTATIVE FIELDS

Introduced: 1/26/26
Referred: Community and Regional Affairs, Transportation

A BILL

FOR AN ACT ENTITLED

"An Act relating to municipal regulation of automated traffic safety cameras." 1
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF ALASKA: 2
* Section 1. AS 29.10.200 is amended by adding a new paragraph to read: 3
(68) AS 29.35.143 (regulation of automated traffic safety cameras). 4
* Sec. 2. AS 29.35 is amended by adding a new section to read: 5
Sec. 29.35.143. Automated traffic safety cameras. (a) The authority to 6
regulate automated traffic safety cameras is reserved to the state, and, except as 7
specifically provided by statute, a municipality may not ban the use of automated 8
traffic safety cameras. 9
(b) This section applies to home rule and general law municipalities. 10
(c) In this section, "automated traffic safety camera" means a device that uses 11
a vehicle sensor installed to work in conjunction with an intersection traffic control 12
system, a railroad grade crossing control system, or a speed measuring device, and a 13
camera synchronized to automatically record one or more sequential photographs or 14
electronic images of the front or rear of a motor vehicle at the time the vehicle fails to 15
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stop when facing a steady red traffic control signal or an activated railroad grade 1
crossing control signal, or exceeds a speed limit as detected by a speed measuring 2
device. 3