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ID H0127
Bill
AI Summary
- Increases gross vehicle weight threshold for safety restraint requirements from 8,000 to 10,000 pounds
- Allows citations to be issued to any occupant 18 years or older who fails to wear a safety restraint, and to operators for unrestrained occupants under 18 years of age, with each violation counted as a single offense regardless of number of unrestrained occupants
- Establishes fines of $10.00 per citation, with $5.00 apportioned to the catastrophic health care cost fund, and specifies convictions do not result in violation points or affect insurance rates
- Deletes the requirement that safety restraint enforcement may only be accomplished as a secondary action during other traffic stops
- Declares an emergency effective upon passage and approval
Legislative Description
Amends existing law relating to rules of the road and safety restraint use to revise exceptions, to revise provisions relating to issuance of a citation and to delete the provision providing that enforcement may be accomplished only as a secondary action.
SAFETY RESTRAINTS
Last Action
Held at Desk
2/10/2011
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