Driver Condition
Drowsy Driving
Distracted Driving
Dealing with Emotions
Dealing with Cell Phones
Medications
Alcohol
Young Drivers
Mature Drivers
Seat Belts
Child Safety
Child Safety Seats
Child Safety Booster Seats and Safety Belts for Children
Automatic Restraints
Children and Air Bags
Child Safety Points
Adult Safety Points
Law on Transporting Children in the Back of a Pick-up Truck
| Seat Belts | | The driver and all passengers in a motor vehicle manufactured with seat belts shall have a seat belt properly fastened about his or her body at all times when the vehicle is in forward motion on a street or highway in this state. Children under age 16 should be in an age and weight appropriate restraint. |
Exemptions to the seat belt law: | | A driver or occupant of a non commercial motor vehicle with a medical or physical condition that prevents appropriate restraint by a safety belt or with a professionally certified mental phobia against the wearing of vehicle restraints;A motor vehicle operated by a rural letter carrier of the United States Postal Service while performing duties as a rural letter carrier, and a motor vehicle operated by a newspaper delivery person while actually engaged in delivery of the newspapers along the person's specified route;A driver or passenger frequently stopping and leaving the vehicle or delivering property from the vehicle if the speed of the vehicle between stops does not exceed 20 mph;Any vehicle registered and licensed as a property-carrying vehicle while being used for agricultural purposes in intrastate commerce.A motor vehicle not required to be equipped with seat safety belts under federal law; andAny occupant of a motor home other than the driver and front seat passengers, provide the motor home has at least four of the following facilities: cooking, refrigeration or icebox, self-contained toilet, heating or air-conditioning, portable water supply system with a faucet and sink, separate 110-115-volt electrical power supply or an LP gas supply. | Exemptions to the child passenger safety law: | | Situations where all seating positions equipped with child passenger restraint systems or seat belts are occupied;Vehicles not required by law to be equipped with seat belts. |
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