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The Montgomery City Council voted to pass a new ordinance that will have consequences for some drivers.
City leaders voted 8-1 to approve a new measure that will result in a person car being towed if they are involved in an accident and do not have a driver's license or auto insurance. The council has tabled the issue several times in the past 2 years because members could not come to an agreement on how the law should be written. That is, until Tuesday.
A committee meeting decided Tuesday that the version before it would be the final version to go before the city council, and when it was brought to the floor it passed by an 8-1 margin. Only Councilman Arch Lee voted against it.
The ordinance says that anyone involved in an accident that doesn't have a driver's The driver will then be forced to pay the ticket fees and the towing fee, a cost that could exceed more than $600.
There is a delay in relation to the auto insurance portion but the state of Alabama does not have adequate technology to verify a driver's auto insurance. Once the state works out the issues with that system, the city of Montgomery will start towing cars belonging to drivers without insurance.
There is no delay for the driver license portion of the ordinance and it will be put into effect 10 days after Mayor Todd Strange signs the ordinance.
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