House Bill 0447c3

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

        By the Committees on Finance & Taxation, Governmental
    Operations, Transportation and Representatives Lippman, Jones,
    Trovillion, Cosgrove, Fuller, Sublette, Miller, Tobin, Casey,
    Fasano, Brown, Jacobs, Tamargo and Silver



  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to the Florida Safety Belt Law;

  3         amending s. 316.614, F.S.; providing for the

  4         issuance of a warning for a first violation of

  5         the act for a specified period; eliminating a

  6         provision which requires enforcement of the act

  7         only as a secondary action; providing an

  8         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.  Subsection (8) of section 316.614, Florida

13  Statutes, is amended to read:

14         316.614  Safety belt usage.--

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

16  section commits a nonmoving violation, punishable as provided

17  in chapter 318; however, until October 1, 1999, enforcement of

18  the provisions of this section, for a first violation, shall

19  be by the issuance of a warning rather than citation for a

20  nonmoving violation. However, enforcement of this section by

21  state or local law enforcement agencies must be accomplished

22  only as a secondary action when a driver of a motor vehicle

23  has been detained for a suspected violation of another section

24  of this chapter, chapter 320, or chapter 322.

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

26  year in which enacted.

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