Motor Vehicles - Automated Traffic Enforcement Systems - Impoundment

HB 1408 allows Maryland law enforcement agencies to impound a motor vehicle if it has three or more unpaid and overdue civil citations from automated traffic enforcement systems (like speed cameras or red-light cameras), with each citation overdue by at least 30 days. This primarily affects vehicle owners who accumulate multiple unpaid automated traffic violations. Impoundment may only occur under two specific conditions: when an officer stops the driver for another traffic violation, or when the vehicle is parked. The bill clarifies that this action cannot be the primary reason for stopping a vehicle. It updates existing transportation code to define "automated traffic enforcement systems" and establish this impoundment threshold.