(a) The city as provided in this article, is empowered to adopt an ordinance providing for the utilization by the city or its designee of a photographic traffic signal enforcement system, a photographic stop sign enforcement system, and a photographic vehicle speed enforcement system to detect and record traffic signal violations, stop sign violations, and speeding violations in the city, to issue notices of civil violations by mail, and to collect fines for the recorded traffic signal violations, stop sign violations, and speeding violations which may occur within the corporate limits of the city as provided in this article.

(b)(1) Fines collected pursuant to an ordinance authorized by this article for traffic signal violations and stop sign violations shall not exceed one hundred ten dollars ($110).

(2)a. Except for speeding violations that occur in school zones, fines collected pursuant to an ordinance authorized by this article for speeding violations shall not exceed the fines as shown in the following table. The following fine shall apply to the owner when captured by the photographic vehicle speed enforcement system where the vehicle was recorded as traveling at the following speeds over the speed limit

b. The fines stated in paragraph a. shall be doubled if the violation occurs and was electronically recorded within a segment of the roadway or intersection designated with signage or signals as a school zone, only during school hours when school is in session and one hour before and after school hours.

(3) The first ten dollars ($10) of each fine authorized by this article and collected by the city or its designee shall be paid to the Alabama Criminal Justice Information Center as compensation for record keeping with respect to violation notices issued pursuant to this article.

(4) Administrative hearing costs shall be assessed only in contested cases. A person who is found liable after an administrative hearing or who requests an administrative hearing and thereafter fails to appear at the time and place of the hearing shall pay the fine amount plus any late fee in addition to a thirty dollar ($30) administrative hearing fee. If the person is found not liable at the administrative hearing, the thirty dollar ($30) administrative hearing fee will not be assessed or any fine and fee paid related to that citation shall be refunded.

(c) The city or its designee may place photographic traffic signal enforcement systems, photographic stop sign enforcement systems, and photographic vehicle speed enforcement systems at locations within the city without notice of the specific location and may change locations without public notice.

(d) The city or its designee shall post a sign or signs at each intersection at which a photographic traffic signal enforcement system or photographic stop sign enforcement system is located informing motorists that such devices are in operation at the intersection. The city or its designee shall post a sign or signs along each roadway or street at which a photographic vehicle speed enforcement system is located informing motorists that such a device is in operation.

(e) The city may contract with a vendor to perform services authorized by this article.