GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 2007

 

 

SESSION LAW 2007-289

HOUSE BILL 1330

 

 

AN ACT to provide an exemption from the requirement that a backseat passenger wear a seat belt while being transported by a law enforcement officer.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

SECTION 1.  G.S. 20-135.2A(c) reads as rewritten:

"(c)      This section shall not apply to any of the following:

(1)       A driver or occupant of a noncommercial 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;restraints.

(2)       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 newspapers along the person's specified route;route.

(3)       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 miles per hour;hour.

(4)       Any vehicle registered and licensed as a property-carrying vehicle in accordance with G.S. 20-88, while being used for agricultural purposes in intrastate commerce;commerce.

(5)       A motor vehicle not required to be equipped with seat safety belts under federal law; orlaw.

(6)       Any occupant of a motor home, as defined in G.S. 20-4.01(27)d2, other than the driver and front seat passengers.

(7)       Any occupant, while in the custody of a law enforcement officer, being transported in the backseat of a law enforcement vehicle."


SECTION 2.  This act is effective when it becomes law.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 16th day of July, 2007.

 

 

                                                                    s/ Marc Basnight

                                                                         President Pro Tempore of the Senate

 

 

                                                                    s/ Joe Hackney

                                                                         Speaker of the House of Representatives

 

 

                                                                    s/ Michael F. Easley

                                                                         Governor

 

 

Approved 2:31 p.m. this 27th day of July, 2007