Minneapolis has the green light to proceed with a pilot that will allow the city to use cameras to catch speeders and drivers who run red lights and mail them a ticket.

A provision in an omnibus bill passed in the final hours of the Legislative session Sunday grants authority for the state’s largest city to institute a traffic enforcement camera program that can start as soon as Aug. 1, 2025 and run for four years.

“Minneapolis now has authority,” said Ethan Fawley, who coordinates the city’s Vision Zero plan to eliminate traffic deaths within the next three years.

Over the next 15 months, Minneapolis will have to flesh out a plan on how the program would work, conduct community engagement and determine where up to 42 cameras can be placed. The law requires cameras to be placed in “geographically distinct areas and in multiple communities with differing socioeconomic conditions.” The city also will need to procure equipment and hire traffic camera enforcement agents.