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HB0301 • 2005

Seat belts-amendments.

AN ACT relating to motor vehicles; removing the restriction on stopping motor vehicles solely for safety belt violations; increasing penalties for failure to use safety belts; repealing a provision prohibiting the admissibility in civil actions of the failure to us a safety belt and providing for an effective date.

Inactive

Wyoming marks this bill as inactive, which usually means it is no longer moving in the current session.

Sponsor
Representative Iekel
Last action
2005-03-02
Official status
inactive
Effective date
Not listed

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Bill History

  1. 2005-03-02 House

    H Committee Returned Bill Pursuant to HR 4-3(b)

  2. 2005-01-24 House

    H Introduced and Referred to H01; No Report Prior to CoW Cutoff

  3. 2005-01-24 House

    H Received for Introduction

  4. 2005-01-21 LSO

    Bill Number Assigned

Current Bill Text

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WORKING DRAFT
2005
STATE OF WYOMING
05LSO-0369

HOUSE BILL
NO.
HB0301

Seat belts-amendments.

Sponsored by:
Representative(s) Iekel, Berger, Cohee, Hinckley, Landon, Osborn and Watt and Senator(s) Peck

A BILL

for

AN ACT relating to motor vehicles; removing the restriction on stopping motor vehicles solely for safety belt violations; increasing penalties for failure to use safety belts; repealing a provision prohibiting the admissibility in civil actions of the failure to us a safety belt and providing for an effective date.

Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Wyoming:

Section 1.
W.S. 31
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5
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1402(e) is amended to read:

31
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1402.

Safety belts required to be used; exceptions; reduction in fine.

(e)

All citations for violations of the motor vehicle laws of this state and for violations of traffic ordinances or traffic regulations of a local authority shall contain a notation by the issuing officer indicating whether the driver and passengers complied with this section. Compliance with this section shall entitle a licensee to a ten dollar ($10.00) reduction in the fine otherwise imposed by any court having jurisdiction over the alleged offense. The driver who violates this section may be issued a citation and may be subject to a fine of not more than
twenty-five dollars ($25.00)
fifty dollars ($50.00)
. Any passenger who violates this section may be issued a citation and may be subject to a fine of not more than
ten dollars ($10.00)
twenty-five dollars ($25.00)
.

Section 2.
W.S. 31
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5
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1402(d) and (f) is repealed.

Section 3.
This act is effective July 1, 2005.

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