Bill Text: MO HB140 | 2011 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Establishes Susie's Law which prohibits any child younger than 18 years of age from riding as a passenger on any machinery or heavy equipment not manufactured for passengers

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-01-27 - Referred: Crime Prevention and Public Safety (H) [HB140 Detail]

Download: Missouri-2011-HB140-Introduced.html

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FIRST REGULAR SESSION

HOUSE BILL NO. 140

96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVES BLACK (Sponsor), HODGES, FALLERT AND CASEY (Co-sponsors).

0468L.01I                                                                                                                                                  D. ADAM CRUMBLISS, Chief Clerk

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AN ACT

To amend chapter 578, RSMo, by adding thereto one new section relating to children as passengers on certain heavy equipment, with a penalty provision.

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Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Missouri, as follows:

            Section A. Chapter 578, RSMo, is amended by adding thereto one new section, to be known as section 578.275, to read as follows:

578.275. 1. This section shall be known and may be cited as "Susie's Law".

            2. For purposes of this section, the following terms shall mean:

            (1) "Child", any person less than eighteen years of age;

            (2) "Machinery or heavy equipment not manufactured for passengers", any machinery or heavy equipment which is not equipped, as standard equipment on such machinery or heavy equipment, with a seat for passengers, including but not limited to any machinery or heavy equipment which performs a specific construction or demolition function, lawn mowers, skid steers, and bulldozers. However, machinery or heavy equipment not manufactured for passengers shall not include farm machinery, as defined in section 32.085.

            3. No child shall be a passenger on any machinery or heavy equipment not manufactured for passengers.

            4. Any operator of any machinery or heavy equipment not manufactured for passengers who violates the provisions of this section shall be subject to a fine of one hundred dollars for the first violation of this section, and five hundred dollars for any second or subsequent violation of this section.

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