HB 1163 - AS INTRODUCED
2001 SESSION
03/10
HOUSE BILL 1163
AN ACT relative to child passenger restraints.
SPONSORS: Rep. R. L'Heureux, Hills 18; Rep. Gorman, Hills 29; Rep. C. Bouchard, Merr 22; Rep. Greco, Merr 12; Sen. Roberge, Dist 9; Sen. Larsen, Dist 15
This bill makes the child passenger restraint requirement apply to a person less than 8 years of age and weighing less than 80 pounds. The requirement currently applies to persons less than 4 years of age. This bill also increases the fines for violations of the child passenger restraint and seat belt law.
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Explanation: Matter added to current law appears in bold italics.
Matter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]
Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
01-2093
03/10
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand One
AN ACT relative to child passenger restraints.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 Child Passenger Restraints Required; Applicability. Amend RSA 265:107-a, I to read as follows:
I. No person shall drive a motor vehicle on any way while carrying as a passenger a person less than 18 years of age unless such person is wearing a seat or safety belt which is properly adjusted and fastened or, if the person is less than [4] 8 years of age and weighs less than 80 pounds, unless such person is properly fastened and secured by a child passenger restraint which is in accordance with the safety standards approved by the United States Department of Transportation in 49 C.F.R. section 571.213. No person shall drive a motor vehicle on any way while carrying as a passenger a person less than 18 years of age unless the motor vehicle was designed for and equipped with the passenger restraints specified above.
2 Child Passenger Restraints Required; Penalty. Amend RSA 265:107-a, III to read as follows:
III. Any driver who violates the provisions of this section shall be guilty of a violation, and shall be subject to the following fines:
(a) [$25] $50 for a first offense.
(b) [$50] $100 for a second or subsequent offense.
3 Effective Date. This act shall take effect January 1, 2003.