FOR AN ACT ENTITLED, An Act to define the limitations of interstate compacts relating to the collection of civil fines.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF SOUTH DAKOTA:
    Section 1. Terms used in this Act mean:

            (1)    "Interstate compact," a voluntary arrangement between two or more states that becomes the law of each state;

            (2)    "Red light camera," an automated camera used to capture an image of a vehicle entering an intersection when the traffic light is signaling red;

            (3)    "Speed camera," an automated camera used to measure and record the speed of vehicles for the purpose of capturing an image of a vehicle that is traveling in excess of the posted speed limit;

            (4)    "Civil fine," a financial penalty imposed by a governmental entity that is imposed without proving the violation, beyond a reasonable doubt, to a court of law or duly

impaneled jury.
    Section 2. The Department of Public Safety and the Division of Motor Vehicles shall not enter into any compact to provide to another state, or governmental entity located in another state, information used to impose or collect a civil fine that results from an alleged violation captured by a red light camera or speed camera.
    Section 3. The Department of Public Safety and the Division of Motor Vehicles shall not provide information used to impose or collect a civil fine that results from a violation captured by a red light camera or speed camera through any existing interstate compact that does not specifically allow, or require, information to be shared for that explicit purpose.