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MI SB1089
Bill
AI Summary
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Allows road construction and maintenance workers to wear only a lap belt without a shoulder harness while operating vehicles in work zones, exempting them from the shoulder harness requirement.
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Maintains existing safety belt requirements for all other operators and front seat passengers of motor vehicles on Michigan streets and highways.
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Specifies exceptions to safety belt requirements for vehicles manufactured before 1965, buses, motorcycles, mopeds, and vehicles where operators have medical documentation preventing belt use.
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Provides that violation of safety belt requirements constitutes a civil infraction but cannot result in assessment of points under section 320a.
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Takes effect 90 days after enactment into law.
Legislative Description
Traffic control; traffic regulation; requirement for construction workers operating vehicle in constriction zone to wear safety belt; modify. Amends sec. 710e of 1949 PA 300 (MCL 257.710e).
Vehicles: equipment
Last Action
Assigned Pa 0460'16 12/30/16 Addenda
12/30/2016