Florida/Georgia Personal Injury & Workers Compensation

1990), regarding unlawful speed; and (3) Section 316.076, Florida Statutes (1989), pertaining to a motorist's

...The City argued that the ordinance did not conflict with state law, but was a supplement to chapter 316, and expressly authorized by statute. Lasercraft argued the ordinance was not preempted by statute since there was no exclusive reservation of authority to the state and the Legislature had only recently enacted a statute (section 316.0076 as part of the Mark Wandall Traffic Safety Act) in or *592 der to expressly preempt the use of red light cameras to the state....

...316.0083.” The Act implemented a statewide red light enforcement program regulating the use of any traffic infraction detector 11 on state, county, and local municipal roads. City of Aventura, 89 So.3d at 241 . Of significance here, the Act added the following provision: § 316.0076....

...Betts, 928 So.2d 1204, 1210 (Fla.2006) (“Sometimes it may be appropriate to consider a subsequent amendment to clarify original legislative intent of a statute if such amendment was enacted soon after a controversy regarding the statute’s interpretation arose.”). Section 316.0076 appears to have merely clarified that the regulation of traffic has been preempted to the state....

...time the vehicle fails to stop behind the stop bar or clearly marked stop line when facing a traffic control signal steady red light. § 316.003(87), Fla. Stat. (2014). In layman's terms, a traffic infraction detector is a red light camera. See id. Section 316.0076, Florida Statutes (2014), expressly preempts the "[r]egulation of the use of cameras for enforcing the provisions of" chapter 316 "to the state." Express preemption notwithstanding, section 316.008, Florida Statutes (2014), states th...