House Bill 0447c2

    Florida House of Representatives - 1998           CS/CS/HB 447

        By the Committees on Governmental Operations,
    Transportation and Representatives Lippman, Jones, Trovillion,
    Cosgrove, Fuller, Sublette, Miller, Tobin, Casey and Fasano




  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to the Florida Safety Belt Law;

  3         amending s. 316.614, F.S.; eliminating a

  4         provision which requires enforcement of the act

  5         only as a secondary action; providing an

  6         effective date.

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  8  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:

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10         Section 1.  Subsection (8) of section 316.614, Florida

11  Statutes, is amended to read:

12         316.614  Safety belt usage.--

13         (8)  Any person who violates the provisions of this

14  section commits a nonmoving violation, punishable as provided

15  in chapter 318. However, enforcement of this section by state

16  or local law enforcement agencies must be accomplished only as

17  a secondary action when a driver of a motor vehicle has been

18  detained for a suspected violation of another section of this

19  chapter, chapter 320, or chapter 322.

20         Section 2.  This act shall take effect October 1 of the

21  year in which enacted.

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