Reminder: Back-Seat Belt Law Goes Into Effect Jan. 1
Illinois now requires passengers in the back seat to buckle up, too.
As you drive back from New Year's Eve celebrations with family and friends tonight, remember that everybody—including passengers in the back seat—needs to buckle up to avoid a ticket.
The new law requiring use of back-seat belts was signed into law in June, but goes into effect Jan. 1, 2012.
House Bill 219 requires all adult passengers sitting in the back seat to wear a seat belt. Failure to comply could result in a fine not to exceed $25.
Previously, the only passengers required to wear seat belts were those in the front seat, children younger than 8 years of age and passengers younger than 19 being driven by someone younger then 18.
The law exempts drivers and passengers in emergency vehicles and back-seat passengers in taxis.
Adam
11:47 am on Saturday, December 31, 2011
wow! WOW! This is crap. We don't need a law for this. Its common sense. I'm convinced communists are taking over Illinois.
Jeffrey Crane
5:41 pm on Saturday, December 31, 2011
Adam:
It is time to get these legislators out, now!!!! They have nothing better to do with their time but to pass hundreds of laws that continue to eat away at your personal freedoms and as you put it, common sense. It is disgraceful and unnecessary. Remember this when you go to vote in the primary.
Ice Man
9:21 pm on Saturday, December 31, 2011
All of the new laws only gives the illusion that our legislators are actually doing work. With all of the real issues to deal with all the could do is just have more control over our lives.
NancyC
8:57 am on Sunday, January 1, 2012
We need to cut their pay, benefits, and opportunities for "influence peddling" then watch them flee. Failure like this in the private sector means a pink slip, at least!
Jeffrey Crane
9:03 am on Sunday, January 1, 2012
Spot on, Nancy!!
Joseph Glynn
10:32 am on Sunday, January 1, 2012
So when the bank takes my house and I have to live in my my mini van, we have to do what?
donato devito
2:48 pm on Sunday, January 1, 2012
I wonder if there is a law against four then three adults in the back seat? If not, then what do you do about buckling up in the back?
Kerry Comstock
8:32 am on Friday, January 6, 2012
And yet motorcyclists; and their passengers still do not have to wear helmets?