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OH SB302
Bill
Status
3/27/2014
Primary Sponsor
Joseph Schiavoni
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AI Summary
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Removes child car seat and booster seat violations (sections 4511.81(C) and (D)) from the definition of "secondary traffic offense," allowing law enforcement to stop and cite drivers solely for these violations.
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Eliminates the prohibition that prevented law enforcement from stopping vehicles for booster seat violations or using visual inspection of vehicle interiors to detect such violations.
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Repeals section 4511.81(G), which made failure to properly secure a child inadmissible as evidence in civil actions against third parties and criminal prosecutions unrelated to the violation itself.
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Allows law enforcement enforcing child restraint laws to stop vehicles as a primary offense, with an exception carved out in section 4513.263(D)(2) exempting seatbelt-only violations from primary enforcement.
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Creates exception in section 4513.263(D)(2) preventing officers from stopping solely for adult seatbelt violations while permitting stops for child restraint law enforcement.
Legislative Description
To allow the enforcement of child car seat, booster seat, and seat belt requirements as a primary offense and to repeal a provision of law that declares that the failure of an operator of a motor vehicle to secure a child in a car seat, in a booster seat, or with a seatbelt is inadmissible in certain civil and criminal proceedings.
Failure to secure child in vehicle-primary offense
Last Action
To Transportation
3/27/2014