Senate Bill sb0216

    Florida Senate - 2005                                   SB 216

    By Senator Hill





    1-239-05

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to motor vehicle safety belt

  3         usage; amending s. 316.614, F.S.; deleting a

  4         provision that limits enforcement of the safety

  5         belt law to that of a secondary action;

  6         providing an 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, except for violations of s. 316.613,

16  enforcement of this section by state or local law enforcement

17  agencies must be accomplished only as a secondary action when

18  a driver of a motor vehicle has been detained for a suspected

19  violation of another section of this chapter, chapter 320, or

20  chapter 322.

21         Section 2.  This act shall take effect July 1, 2005.

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24                          SENATE SUMMARY

25    Deletes a requirement that the safety belt law be
      enforced only as a secondary action when a driver has
26    been detained for another violation.

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