Pembroke Pines, FL Mobility & Curb Rules: Red-Light Cameras (2026)

Chapter 73 traces back to Ordinance 1665 in 2010 and was amended by Ordinance 1866 in 2017. Section 73.01 states the chapter's purpose is to authorize traffic infraction detectors to promote compliance with red light signal directives under the Mark Wandall Traffic Safety Act, F.S. § 316.0083, and to transition away from the city's own prior ordinance-based camera program after the state preempted the field. Section 73.02 fixes the effective date of July 1, 2010, for enforcement under the State Act using image capture technologies, and the chapter expressly cannot conflict with or supersede state law on red light violations.

Section 73.04 sets the review process: a designated Traffic Infraction Enforcement Officer or Reviewing Officer must verify the accuracy of recorded images before a Notice of Violation is mailed to the registered owner, and that notice must go out no later than 30 days after the violation. If the owner takes no action within 60 days, a Reviewing Officer reviews the images again and, on finding a violation, the city issues a uniform traffic citation by certified mail. Section 73.05 closes out the city's earlier home-rule program, Ordinance 1527: no new Notices of Infraction could issue under it after June 30, 2010, though citations already issued kept being processed and appealed under that ordinance's own rules.

For due process, § 73.06 requires the City Commission to appoint at least one Special Magistrate, who must be a Florida Bar member of at least five years' standing, to hear disputed citations, and § 73.07 has that magistrate serve as the city's Local Hearing Officer under F.S. § 316.003(91), assessing administrative costs by resolution whenever a violation is upheld.