Montgomery, AL – A Republican state senator says he will try to repeal a state law that keeps small town police departments from enforcing speeding laws on interstate highways.
Senator Gerald Dial of Lineville said he and other legislators made a mistake in 1996 when they passed the law. They did it after another senator got stopped twice for speeding on the interstate highways in small towns.
Dial is offering a bill for the legislative session starting next week that would allow police departments in towns smaller than 19,000 to write speeding tickets on the interstates and allow all police departments to write speeding tickets in their police jurisdictions.
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