GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 2007
SESSION LAW 2007-289
HOUSE BILL 1330
AN ACT to provide an exemption from the requirement that a backseat passenger wear a seat belt while being transported by a law enforcement officer.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1. G.S. 20-135.2A(c) reads as rewritten:
"(c) This section shall not apply to any of the following:
(1) A driver or occupant
of a noncommercial motor vehicle with a medical or physical condition that
prevents appropriate restraint by a safety belt or with a professionally
certified mental phobia against the wearing of vehicle restraints;restraints.
(2) A motor vehicle
operated by a rural letter carrier of the United States Postal Service while
performing duties as a rural letter carrier and a motor vehicle operated by a
newspaper delivery person while actually engaged in delivery of newspapers
along the person's specified route;route.
(3) A driver or passenger
frequently stopping and leaving the vehicle or delivering property from the
vehicle if the speed of the vehicle between stops does not exceed 20 miles per hour;hour.
(4) Any vehicle registered
and licensed as a property-carrying vehicle in accordance with G.S. 20-88,
while being used for agricultural purposes in intrastate commerce;commerce.
(5) A motor vehicle not
required to be equipped with seat safety belts under federal law; orlaw.
(6) Any occupant of a motor home, as defined in G.S. 20-4.01(27)d2, other than the driver and front seat passengers.
(7) Any occupant, while in the custody of a law enforcement officer, being transported in the backseat of a law enforcement vehicle."
SECTION 2. This act is effective when it becomes law.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 16th day of July, 2007.
s/ Marc Basnight
President Pro Tempore of the Senate
s/ Joe Hackney
Speaker of the House of Representatives
s/ Michael F. Easley
Governor
Approved 2:31 p.m. this 27th day of July, 2007