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PRINTER'S NO. 3466
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No. 2556
Session of
2026
INTRODUCED BY CURRY, MAYES, MAZZOCCO, KUZMA, SANCHEZ, WAXMAN,
RIVERA AND GUZMAN, MAY 29, 2026
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION, MAY 29, 2026
AN ACT
Amending Title 75 (Vehicles) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
Statutes, in general provisions relating to traffic-control
devices, providing for automated road safety monitoring
systems.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Title 75 of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
Statutes is amended by adding a section to read:
§ 3118. Automated road safety monitoring systems.
(a) Authorization.--
(1) A municipality, after passage of an ordinance, is
authorized to use an automated road safety monitoring system
approved by the department to prosecute enforceable
violations in a school zone.
(2) A municipality that uses an automated road safety
monitoring system under paragraph (1) may enter into a
contract with an entity, including the manufacturer or vendor
of automated road safety monitoring systems or other person
to implement, administer, operate or otherwise conduct the
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issuance, processing and the collection of citations and
fines.
(b) Owner liability.--Except as provided under subsection
(e), the registered owner of the motor vehicle shall be liable
for the penalty imposed under this section.
(c) Notification of violation and penalty.--
(1) A fine under this section shall be $40.
(2) For the first 30 days after an automated road safety
monitoring system becomes operational in a municipality, the
municipality may send a written warning to the registered
owner of a motor vehicle for the purposes of education in
lieu of enforcement through a fine.
(3) An enforceable violation issued by a municipality
may not be:
(i) Made part of the operating record of the
individual upon whom the liability is imposed.
(ii) A conviction of a moving violation under
Subchapter B of Chapter 33 (relating to right-of-way) and
Subchapter C of Chapter 35 (relating to rights and duties
of pedestrians).
(4) The following apply to the notification of an
enforceable violation:
(i) Notification from a municipality that authorizes
the use of an automated road safety monitoring system
shall include a notice of an enforceable violation to the
registered owner of a motor vehicle that is identified in
photographs or videos produced by an automated road
safety monitoring system as evidence of an enforceable
violation.
(ii) A rebuttable presumption exists that the
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registered owner of a motor vehicle was the driver of the
motor vehicle when the citation for an enforceable
violation was issued and notice delivered as provided in
this section.
(iii) The notice of violation required under
subparagraph (i) shall include:
(A) A copy of the photographs or video produced
by the automated road safety monitoring system and
any other data showing the motor vehicle in the
process of an enforceable violation.
(B) The registration number and state of
issuance of the motor vehicle.
(C) The name and address of the registered owner
of the motor vehicle.
(D) The date, time and location of the alleged
enforceable violation.
(E) The specific enforceable violation charged.
(F) Instructions for payment of the fine
imposed.
(G) A signed statement by a police officer or
trained technician employed by the municipality that,
based on the inspection of the recorded image, the
motor vehicle was being operated during the
commission of an enforceable violation.
(H) Instructions on how to appeal the citation
and to obtain a hearing.
(I) An affidavit form approved by the police
officer or trained technician employed by the
municipality for the purposes of making an appeal.
(iv) In the case of an enforceable violation
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involving a motor vehicle registered in this
Commonwealth, the notice shall be mailed within 30 days
of the enforceable violation to the address of the
registered owner of the motor vehicle.
(v) If a motor vehicle is registered under the laws
of another state or country, the notice shall be mailed
within 45 days after obtaining the name and address of
the registered owner of the motor vehicle. If the address
is unavailable, it shall be sufficient to mail the notice
to the official in the state or country that has charge
of the registration of the motor vehicle.
(vi) If the registered owner of a motor vehicle
involved in a violation is engaged in the business of
leasing or renting motor vehicles, the registered owner
remains liable for payment of any fine imposed under this
section even if the registered owner was not driving the
motor vehicle, but may obtain payment from the lessor or
renter of the motor vehicle driving the motor vehicle at
the time the enforceable violation occurred and forward
the payment to the state or municipality imposing the
civil penalty.
(vii) The notice shall be sent by first class mail.
A manual or automatic record of mailing processed by or
on behalf of the municipal agent in the ordinary course
of business shall be prima facie evidence and shall be
admitted as evidence in any judicial or administrative
proceeding as to the facts.
(viii) A registered owner of a motor vehicle
involved in a violation may appeal the violation as to
matters of law and fact to the court of common pleas in
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the county where the alleged violation occurred. The
appeal shall be made not later than 30 days after the
date on which the notice of violation was mailed. The
registered owner of the motor vehicle may assert in an
appeal that a notice served by first class mail or other
mail delivery service was not actually delivered. The
appeal shall be a de novo hearing.
(d) Certificate as evidence.--A certificate, or a facsimile
of a certificate, based upon inspection of recorded images
produced by an automated road safety monitoring system and sworn
to or affirmed by a police officer or trained technician
employed by the municipality shall be prima facie evidence of
the facts contained in it. The municipality must include a
written statement that the automated road safety monitoring
system was operating correctly at the time of the alleged
violation. A recorded image evidencing an enforceable violation
shall be admissible in any judicial or administrative proceeding
to adjudicate the liability for the violation.
(e) Exemptions.--A registered owner of a motor vehicle shall
not be liable for a violation under this section if the
enforceable violation was:
(1) necessary to allow the passage of an emergency
vehicle;
(2) incurred while participating in a funeral
procession;
(3) incurred during a period of time in which the motor
vehicle was reported to the police department of any state,
city or town as having been stolen and had not been recovered
before the time the enforceable violation occurred; or
(4) necessary to comply with any other law or regulation
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governing the operation of a motor vehicle.
(f) Signage and community notice.--
(1) A municipality that authorizes the use of an
automated road safety monitoring system shall install at each
location of an automated road safety monitoring system an
unobstructed sign notifying the public that an automated road
safety monitoring system is in use.
(2) A municipality that authorizes the use of an
automated road safety monitoring system shall make a public
announcement and conduct a public awareness campaign of its
use of automated road safety monitoring systems beginning not
less than 30 days before the first automated road safety
monitoring system is put into use.
(3) A municipality may install but not activate
automated road safety monitoring systems during the 30-day
time period under paragraph (2).
(g) Reporting.--
(1) Annually, not later than December 1, a municipality
that authorizes the use of an automated road safety
monitoring system shall transmit a report to the department
that details each automated road safety monitoring system
located in the municipality. The report shall include:
(i) A list of the locations of each automated road
safety monitoring system in the municipality.
(ii) An analysis of the nexus between public safety
and each location's automated road safety monitoring
system.
(iii) The number of fines and warnings issued for
enforceable violations under subsection (c).
(iv) The total amount of fines collected during the
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year.
(v) Crash data, to the extent available, at each
separate location of an automated road safety monitoring
system.
(vi) The total number of pedestrians and other road
users present in the photographs or other recorded
evidence for all camera-enforceable violations for which
fines and warnings were issued during the one-year
period.
(2) The department shall post all reports received on
the department's publicly accessible Internet website.
(h) Compensation to manufacturer or vendor.--Compensation
paid to a manufacturer or vendor of an automated road safety
monitoring system shall be based on the value of the equipment
and services provided or rendered in support of the automated
road safety monitoring system and may not be based on the number
of enforceable violations issued or a portion or percentage of
the fine generated by the citations.
(i) Photographs taken.--
(1) Photographs and other recorded evidence taken by an
automated road safety monitoring system shall:
(i) Be destroyed not more than 48 hours after the
final disposition of an enforceable violation.
(ii) Not be discoverable in any judicial or
administrative proceeding, other than a proceeding held
pursuant to this section, without a court order. A
photograph or other recorded evidence taken pursuant to
this section shall not be admissible in any judicial or
administrative proceeding, other than in a proceeding to
adjudicate liability for a violation under this section,
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without a court order.
(iii) Only record enforceable violations and may not
be used for any other surveillance purposes. The
restrictions under this subparagraph may not preclude a
court of competent jurisdiction from issuing an order
directing that the information be provided to law
enforcement officials if the information is reasonably
described and is requested solely in connection with a
criminal law enforcement action.
(iv) Not be utilized to take a frontal view
photograph of a motor vehicle committing an enforceable
violation. A frontal view photograph of a motor vehicle
committing an enforceable violation taken by an automated
road safety monitoring system shall not be discoverable
or admissible in any judicial or administrative
proceeding and shall not be used as the basis for an
enforceable violation under this section. To the extent
practicable, additional efforts shall be made to ensure
that photographs produced by an automated road safety
monitoring system do not identify the motor vehicle
operator, the passengers or the contents of the motor
vehicle. A notice of violation issued may not be
dismissed solely because a photograph or photographs
allowed for the identification of the motor vehicle
operator, the passengers or the contents of the motor
vehicle, if the municipality has made a reasonable effort
to comply with this subparagraph.
(v) Blur any facial image of a pedestrian or other
road user captured by the automated road safety
monitoring system prior to uploading or otherwise sending
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or transmitting the photograph or other recorded evidence
to a city, county or municipality or a municipal agent.
(2) A municipality or a manufacturer or vendor of an
automated road safety monitoring system may not use,
disclose, sell or permit access to data collected by an
automated road safety monitoring system, except as necessary
to process enforceable violations in accordance with this
section.
(3) Photographs and other personal identifying
information collected by a municipality under this section
shall not be a public record.
(j) Use of revenue.--A municipality that authorizes the use
of automated road safety monitoring systems under this section
shall use the revenue generated to pay for administration costs
associated with this section and fund road safety projects with
the highest potential to reduce vulnerable road user injuries
and fatalities, including improvements to access and safety for
road users with mobility, sight or other disabilities.
(k) Rules and regulations.--The department shall issue rules
and promulgate regulations necessary to implement this section.
(l) Construction.--Nothing in this section shall be
construed to prohibit a law enforcement officer from issuing a
notice of traffic violation to a person in control of a motor
vehicle at the time a violation occurs.
(m) Definitions.--As used in this section, the following
words and phrases shall have the meanings given to them in this
subsection unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:
"Automated road safety monitoring system." A n automated
motor vehicle sensor device that produces digital photographs or
video of a motor vehicle that commits a violation at the
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location where the automated motor vehicle sensor device is
located.
"Enforceable violations." Any of the following violations of
traffic law or regulation:
(1) Failure to stop for a stop sign under section 3323
(relating to stop signs and yield signs).
(2) Failure to yield to pedestrian in a crosswalk under
section 3542 (relating to right-of-way of pedestrians in
crosswalks).
"Municipal agent." The entity or person contracted by a
city, county or municipality to implement, administer or
otherwise conduct the issuance, processing and collection of
citations and fines of enforceable violations under this
section.
Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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