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STATE OF WYOMING
SENATE FILE NO. SF0019
Highway safety-child restraints.
Sponsored by: Joint Transportation, Highways & Military Affairs Interim Committee
A BILL
for
1 AN ACT relating to motor vehicles; requiring rear-facing
2 child safety restraint systems for children younger than
3 two (2) years old or under the weight or height limits
4 specified for the particular child safety restraint system;
5 clarifying the placement of child safety restraint systems
6 in front of active airbags; and providing for an effective
7 date.
8
9 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Wyoming:
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11 Section 1. W.S. 31-5-1303(a) is amended to read:
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13 31-5-1303. Child safety restraint system; required
14 use; exception.
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1 (a) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (b) of
2 this section, no person shall operate a passenger vehicle
3 in this state unless each child who is a passenger in that
4 vehicle and who has not reached his that child's ninth
5 birthday is properly secured in a child safety restraint
6 system in a seat of the vehicle other than the front seat,
7 except if the vehicle is only equipped with one (1) row of
8 seats, or if all safety belts in the rows of seats behind
9 the front seat are in use by other child passengers in the
10 vehicle, the child may be properly secured in a child
11 safety restraint system in the front passenger seat of the
12 vehicle, except that a rear-facing infant seat child safety
13 restraint system shall not be placed in front of an active
14 airbag. The child safety restraint system required by this
15 subsection shall be rear-facing until the child reaches
16 either the age of two (2) or the weight or height limit
17 specified by the manufacturer of the child safety restraint
18 system.
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20 Section 2. This act is effective July 1, 2023.
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22 (END)
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Statutes affected:
Introduced: 31-5-1303