Bill Text: CA SB1054 | 2009-2010 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Child passenger restraint systems: sale: nonprofit
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-04-19 - Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author. [SB1054 Detail]
Download: California-2009-SB1054-Introduced.html
BILL NUMBER: SB 1054 INTRODUCED BILL TEXT INTRODUCED BY Senator Walters FEBRUARY 16, 2010 An act to amend Section 27362.1 of the Vehicle Code, relating to child passenger restraint systems. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST SB 1054, as introduced, Walters. Child passenger restraint systems: sale: nonprofit organizations. Existing law prohibits an individual from selling or offering for sale a child passenger restraint system that was in use by a child during an accident involving a motor vehicle. A violation of that prohibition is an infraction, punishable by a $100 fine. This bill would except from this prohibition certain nonprofit organizations if, with respect to a used child passenger restraint system, the nonprofit organization determines, by visual inspection, that the manufacturer's expiration date for the child passenger restraint system has not passed and that the system is in safe, working condition. Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no. State-mandated local program: no. THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: SECTION 1. Section 27362.1 of the Vehicle Code is amended to read: 27362.1. (a)NoAn individualmayshall not sell or offer for sale a child passenger restraint system that was in use by a child during an accident involving a motor vehicle. (b) A violation ofthis sectionsubdivision (a) shall be punished by a fine of one hundred dollars ($100). (c) The prohibition in subdivision (a) shall not apply to a nonprofit organization with tax-exempt status under Section 501(c)(3) of Title 26 of the United States Code if it makes both of the following determinations, with respect to a used child passenger restraint system that is donated to the organization: (1) Upon visual inspection, determines that the manufacturer's expiration date for the child passenger restraint system has not passed. (2) Upon visual inspection, determines that the child passenger restraint system is in safe, working condition.