GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
1993 SESSION
CHAPTER 748
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1. G.S. 20-137.1 reads as rewritten:
"§ 20-137.1. Child restraint systems required.
(a) Every driver who is
transporting a child of less than six 12 years of age
shall have the child properly secured in a child passenger restraint system
(car safety seat) which met applicable meets federal standards applicable
at the time of its manufacture. The requirements of this section may
be met when the child is three four years of age or older
by securing the child in a seat safety belt.
(b) The provisions of
this section shall not apply: (i) to vehicles registered in another state or
jurisdiction; (ii) (i) to ambulances or other emergency vehicles; (iii)
(ii) when the child's personal needs are being attended to; (iv) (iii)
if all seating positions equipped with child passenger restraint systems or
seat belts are occupied; or (v) (iv) to vehicles which are not
required by federal law or regulation to be equipped with seat belts.
(c) Any person convicted
of violating this section may be punished by a fine not to exceed twenty-five
dollars ($25.00). No driver charged under this section for failure to
have a child under three four years of age properly secured in a
restraint system shall be convicted if he produces at the time of his trial
proof satisfactory to the court that he has subsequently acquired an approved
child passenger restraint system.
(d) No driver license points or insurance points shall be assessed for a violation of this section; nor shall a violation constitute negligence per se or contributory negligence per se nor shall it be evidence of negligence or contributory negligence."
Sec. 2. This act becomes effective July 1, 1995.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 15th day of July, 1994.
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Marc Basnight
President Pro Tempore of the Senate
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Daniel Blue, Jr.
Speaker of the House of Representatives