10.31.010 Authorized use of automated traffic safety cameras.
(1) Law enforcement officers of the City of Pasco and persons commissioned by the Police Chief are authorized to use automated traffic safety cameras and related automated systems to detect one or more of the following infractions:
(a) Stop light infractions;
(b) Railroad crossing violations;
(c) School speed zone violations.
(2) The use of automated traffic safety cameras is subject to the following restrictions:
(a) The use of automated traffic safety cameras is restricted to “two arterial intersections” (the intersection of two arterial streets), railroad crossings, school speed zones, and as authorized in RCW 46.63.170.
(b) Approval of the City Council shall be obtained for each location proposed for the use of automated traffic safety cameras.
(c) Automated traffic safety cameras may only take pictures of the vehicle and the vehicle license plate and only while the infraction is occurring. Pictures taken by the automated traffic safety camera may not reveal the face of the driver or of the passengers in the vehicle.
(3) The City shall clearly mark all locations where automated cameras are in use by placing signs in locations that clearly indicate to a driver that he or she is entering a zone where traffic laws are enforced by automated traffic safety cameras.
(4) For the purpose of this chapter, “automated traffic safety camera” means a device that uses a vehicle sensor installed to work in conjunction with an intersection traffic control system, a railroad grade crossing control system, or a speed measuring device, and a camera synchronized to automatically record one or more sequential photographs, microphotographs, or electronic images of the rear of a motor vehicle at the time vehicle:
(a) Fails to stop when facing a steady red traffic control signal; or
(b) Fails to stop when facing an activated railroad grade crossing control signal; or
(c) Exceeds a speed limit in a school speed zone as detected by a speed-measuring device. [Ord. 4392 § 1, 2018; Code 1970 § 10.22.010.]