School bus seat belts.

WORKING DRAFT
2007
STATE OF
WYOMING
07LSO-0181

HOUSE BILL
NO.
HB0106

School bus seat belts.

Sponsored by:
Representative(s) Davison, Martin, McOmie and Thompson and Senator(s) Sessions

A BILL

for

AN ACT relating to motor vehicles; requiring seat belts in school buses as specified; amending related provision and repealing conflicting provision; 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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1401(a)(ii) and by creating a new paragraph (vii) and 31
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1402(a) are amended to read:

31
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1401.

Definitions.

(a)

As used in this act:

(ii)

"Passenger vehicle" means vehicle which is self-propelled and designed to carry eleven (11) persons or less and primarily used to transport persons, including pickup trucks but excluding emergency vehicles, motorcycles and buses
that are not school buses
;

(vii)

"School bus" means a motor vehicle
that is sold, or introduced in interstate commerce, for purposes that include carrying ten (10) or more students to and from school or related events, but does not include a bus designed and sold for operation as a common carrier in urban transportation,
and is used to transport children
.

31
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5
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1402.

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

(a)

Each driver and passenger of a
motor
passenger
vehicle
or school bus
operated in this state shall wear, and each driver of a
motor

passenger
vehicle
or school bus
shall require that a passenger under twelve (12) years of age shall wear, a properly adjusted and fastened safety belt when the motor vehicle is in motion on public streets and highways.

Section 2.
W.S. 31
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5
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1302(a)(v)(B) is repealed.

Section 3.
This act is effective July 1, 2007.

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