Bill Text: AZ HB2224 | 2012 | Fiftieth Legislature 2nd Regular | Introduced

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Bill Title: Unrestrained minors; motor vehicles; prohibition

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-02-02 - Referred to House RULES Committee [HB2224 Detail]

Download: Arizona-2012-HB2224-Introduced.html

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REFERENCE TITLE: unrestrained minors; motor vehicles; prohibition

 

 

 

 

State of Arizona

House of Representatives

Fiftieth Legislature

Second Regular Session

2012

 

 

HB 2224

 

Introduced by

Representatives Goodale, Heinz: Jones

 

 

AN ACT

 

Amending title 28, chapter 3, article 15, Arizona Revised Statutes, by adding section 28‑913; relating to motor vehicles.

 

 

(TEXT OF BILL BEGINS ON NEXT PAGE)

 

Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona:

Section 1.  Title 28, chapter 3, article 15, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended by adding section 28-913, to read:

START_STATUTE28-913.  Transporting minors in motor vehicles; exceptions

A.  A person driving a motor vehicle on a highway shall not transport a person who is under eighteen years of age in an open compartment of the motor vehicle unless the person who is under eighteen years of age is safely restrained by a lap belt or lap and shoulder belt that is designed to prevent the person from being ejected from the vehicle.

B.  This section does not apply:

1.  If the person is being transported in an emergency response situation.  For the purposes of this paragraph, "emergency response situation" means an instance in which measures are necessary to assist an injured person or to prevent injury or death to a person.

2.  If the person is being transported in an organized parade.

3.  To a motor vehicle that is on private property.

4.  If a person is driving the motor vehicle at or below a posted speed limit of thirty-five miles per hour or less.

5.  If the motor vehicle is leased, owned, operated or authorized to be operated by a farmer or rancher and is used exclusively within the boundaries of lands owned or managed by the farmer or rancher, including the incidental use of the motor vehicle on not more than one mile of highway between one part of the farm or ranch and another part of that farm or ranch.

6.  To a motor vehicle that is on an Indian reservation. END_STATUTE