(a) The purpose of this chapter is to establish an automated speed enforcement system, which shall be administered by the department of transportation, in consultation with the office of emergency management and communications and the department of finance, and enforced through a system of administrative adjudication within the department of administrative hearings.
(b) The automated speed enforcement system shall utilize technology which detects, through radar or other means, the speed of a vehicle operated in violation of Section 9-12-070, 9-12-075 or 9-12-077 and which records, through photographic or other means, the vehicle and the vehicle registration plate of the vehicle. Detection and recording devices used by the system may be stationary or mobile.
(c) The terms "automated speed enforcement system", "owner", "recorded image" and "safety zone" have the meanings ascribed to those terms in subsection (a) of Section 11-208.8 of the Illinois Vehicle Code, 625 ILCS 5/11-208.8(a).
(d) The automated speed enforcement system shall be operated only at such times and in such locations as is authorized by Section 11-208.8 of the Illinois Vehicle Code, 625 ILCS 5/11-208.8, and shall be subject to all of the requirements applicable to those systems in that section and in Section 11-208.3 of that Code, 625 ILCS 5/11-208.3.
(e) The department of transportation, in consultation with the office of emergency management and communications, the police department and the department of finance, shall adopt rules and regulations as may be necessary for the proper enforcement and administration of this chapter.
(Added Coun. J. 4-18-12, p. 23762, § 5)
Editor's note– Coun. J. 4-18-12, p. 23762, § 5, repealed former § 9-101-010, which established the city's prior automated speed enforcement program.