HB 0051B 2003
   
1 A bill to be entitled
2          An act relating to safety belt law enforcement; providing
3    a popular name; amending s. 316.614, F.S.; deleting
4    requirement for enforcement of the Florida Safety Belt Law
5    as a secondary action; providing for construction of the
6    act in pari materia with laws enacted during the 2003
7    Regular Session or the 2003 Special Session A of the
8    Legislature; providing an effective date.
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10          Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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12          Section 1. This act shall be known by the popular name the
13    "Dori Slosberg Safety Belt Law."
14          Section 2. Subsection (8) of section 316.614, Florida
15    Statutes, is amended to read:
16          316.614 Safety belt usage.--
17          (8) Any person who violates the provisions of this section
18    commits a nonmoving violation, punishable as provided in chapter
19    318. However, except for violations of s. 316.613, enforcement
20    of this section by state or local law enforcement agencies must
21    be accomplished only as a secondary action when a driver of a
22    motor vehicle has been detained for a suspected violation of
23    another section of this chapter, chapter 320, or chapter 322.
24          Section 3. If any law amended by this act was also amended
25    by a law enacted at the 2003 Regular Session of the Legislature
26    or at the 2003 Special Session A of the Legislature, such laws
27    shall be construed as if they had been enacted at the same
28    session of the Legislature, and full effect shall be given to
29    each if possible.
30          Section 4. This act shall take effect upon becoming a law.