SB 416 - AS INTRODUCED
2002 SESSION
03/01
SENATE BILL 416
This bill establishes additional requirements for the parade vehicle exception to the child passenger restraint 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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
02-3162
03/01
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Two
AN ACT relative to motor vehicles operated in parades.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 Child Passenger Restraints Required; Exception for Motor Vehicle Operated in Parade. Amend RSA 265:107-a, II to read as follows:
II. A person shall not be guilty of a violation of this section if the motor vehicle the person is driving is regularly used to transport passengers for hire, is a school bus weighing more than 10,000 pounds or is a school bus weighing less than 10,000 pounds that was manufactured without safety belts, or there is an individual education plan statement contraindicating the use of restraints, is a vehicle manufactured before 1968, is a motorcycle as defined in RSA 259:63, is an antique motor car or motorcycle as defined in RSA 259:4, or is being operated in a parade authorized by law or ordinance, provided that the parade vehicle is travelling at a speed of no more than 10 miles per hour and is equipped with continuous side rails enclosing the perimeter of the vehicle or platform, 3 feet or more in height and enclosed in a way that would reasonably prevent passage of a small child.
2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect January 1, 2003.