Driver sought a writ of prohibition to prevent city from conducting an administrative hearing to adjudicate her liability for violating a municipal traffic ordinance.
The Supreme Court held that city lacked jurisdiction to carry out its red-light and speeding-camera civil-enforcement system.
City lacked jurisdiction to carry out its red-light and speeding-camera civil-enforcement system; statute provided that a municipal court had “jurisdiction over the violation of any ordinance of any municipal corporation within its territory, including exclusive jurisdiction over every civil action concerning a violation of a state traffic law or a municipal traffic ordinance,” and city ordinance allowed an administrative hearing officer to adjudicate noncriminal traffic-law violation in contravention of statute’s language.