NOTE: The governor vetoed this measure on 6/2/2016.
      
      
      HOUSE BILL 16-1231
      
      
      BY REPRESENTATIVE(S) Lebsock, Melton, Klingenschmitt, Lawrence,
      Neville P., Saine, Salazar, Van Winkle, Wist;
      also SENATOR(S) Carroll, Baumgardner, Cooke, Crowder, Grantham,
      Guzman, Hill, Jahn, Lambert, Lundberg, Scheffel, Scott, Sonnenberg, Tate,
      Woods.
      
      
      Concerning the limited use of automated vehicle identification
           systems designed to detect disobedience to a traffic signal.
      
      
      Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Colorado:
      
           SECTION 1.  Legislative declaration. (1)  The general assembly
      finds and declares that:
      
           (a)  It is important to limit the expansion of the use of automated
      vehicle identification systems to detect disobedience to traffic signals; and
      
           (b)  The systems should not be used on collector roads, local streets,
      and in neighborhoods. A collector road is a road that collects traffic from
      local streets and distributes the traffic to arterial roads.
      
           (2)  It is therefore the intent of the general assembly to limit the use
      of automated vehicle identification systems to detect disobedience to traffic
      signals in school zones, construction zones, and arterial roads.
      
           SECTION 2.  In Colorado Revised Statutes, 42-4-110.5, add (2)
      (h) as follows:
      
           42-4-110.5.  Automated vehicle identification systems -
      definition. (2)  A municipality may adopt an ordinance authorizing the use
      of an automated vehicle identification system to detect violations of traffic
      regulations adopted by the municipality, or the state, a county, a city and
      county, or a municipality may utilize an automated vehicle identification
      system to detect traffic violations under state law, subject to the following
      conditions and limitations:
      
           (h) (I)  The state, a county, a city and county, or a
      municipality may only use an automated vehicle identification
      system designed to detect disobedience to a traffic control
      signal:
      
           (A)  Within a school zone, as defined in section 42-4-615;
      
           (B)  Within a maintenance, construction, or repair zone
      designated pursuant to section 42-4-614; and
      
           (C)  To detect a traffic violation on an arterial road.
      
           (II)  For the purposes of this paragraph (h), "arterial road"
      means a major roadway intended primarily to serve through
      traffic, where access is carefully controlled. The fact that a
      driveway directly accesses a road does not, by itself, prevent the
      road from being an arterial road.
      
           (III)  A governmental entity that assesses any fines through
      the use of an automated vehicle identification system designed to
      detect disobedience to a traffic signal may use the money only
      for traffic safety improvements, traffic enforcement, and
      related purposes.
      
           (IV)  Notwithstanding subparagraph (I) of this paragraph
      (h), the state, a county, a city and county, or a municipality may
      not use an automated vehicle identification system designed to
      detect disobedience to a traffic signal in any location on or after
      December 31, 2016.
      
           SECTION 3.  Safety clause. The general assembly hereby finds,
      determines, and declares that this act is necessary for the immediate
      preservation of the public peace, health, and safety.
      
      
      
      
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      Dickey Lee Hullinghorst                Bill L. Cadman
      SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE                     PRESIDENT OF
      OF REPRESENTATIVES                         THE SENATE
      
      
      
      
      
      
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      Marilyn Eddins                            Effie Ameen
      CHIEF CLERK OF THE HOUSE                 SECRETARY OF
      OF REPRESENTATIVES                         THE SENATE
      
      
      
      
                  APPROVED________________________________________
      
      
      
      
      
                                    _________________________________________
                                    John W. Hickenlooper
                                    GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF COLORADO