WHB/3/5
Sponsored by Oscar Wimmer, Ian Steiger, Oliver Bankston of West High School
This legislation was filed in the Transportation category
Presented as part of the YIG Volunteer 2024 conference
| 1 | BE IT ENACTED BY THE YMCA TENNESSEE YOUTH IN GOVERNMENT |
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| 3 | Section 1: Terms in this act will be defined as follows: |
| 4 | Passenger Motor Operated Vehicle: Any motor vehicle under 8,500 pounds net weight federally |
| 5 | required to be equipped with seat belts. |
| 6 | Passengers: Someone traveling in but not operating a motor vehicle. |
| 7 | |
| 8 | Section 2: All passengers, no matter their age, within any seats of all rows of a passenger motor |
| 9 | operated vehicle shall be restrained by a seat belt at any time the vehicle is in motion. |
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| 11 | Section 3: Any violation of this will result in a twenty-five dollar ($25.00) fine for the first offense |
| 12 | and a fifty dollar ($50.00) fine for any subsequent offenses, as in accordance with fines for similar |
| 13 | seat belt law violations. |
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| 15 | Section 4: Revenue generated from these fines shall be added to the state general fund without a |
| 16 | specific designation for its purpose. |
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| 18 | Section 5: Ways to pay for ticketed offenses of this law will include: Paying in person in the County |
| 19 | Building of the county in which you were ticketed, paying over the phone by calling the clerk of the |
| 20 | respective county in which you were ticketed, or mailing payment to the county clerk you were |
| 21 | ticketed in by mailing a check or money order with the required amount along with the ticket you |
| 22 | are paying. |
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| 24 | Section 6: The addition of this law will cost $0 for the state to implement. |
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| 26 | Section 7: All laws or parts of laws in conflict with this are hereby repealed. |
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| 28 | Section 8: This act shall take effect immediately following its passage, the public welfare requiring |
| 29 | it. |
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