Motor Vehicles - Speed Monitoring Systems - Safety Corridors

SB 520 authorizes Maryland’s State Highway Administration to install speed monitoring systems in designated "safety corridors" - areas prioritized in their Pedestrian Safety Action Plan for high risk to pedestrians and cyclists. The bill modifies existing law to clarify that penalties from citations issued via these systems (e.g., for speeding in safety corridors) must be paid directly to the State Highway Administration for uncontested cases, rather than to courts. It also specifies that recorded images from these systems are admissible as evidence in court without additional authentication. This directly affects drivers in designated safety corridors and changes how enforcement proceeds for these specific speed monitoring systems.