Public Act 100-0672
 
HB4377 EnrolledLRB100 16290 AXK 31413 b


  
    AN ACT concerning transportation.
  
 
    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
 
represented in the General Assembly:
  
 
 
    Section 5. The Child Passenger Protection Act is amended  by 
changing Section 4 as follows:
 



    (625 ILCS 25/4)  (from Ch. 95 1/2, par. 1104)



    Sec. 4. When any person is transporting a child in
this 
State
under the age of 8 years in a non-commercial motor 
vehicle of the
first
division, any truck or truck tractor that 
is equipped with seat safety belts, any other motor vehicle of 
the second division with a gross vehicle
weight rating of 9,000 
pounds or less, or a recreational vehicle on the
roadways, 
streets or highways of this State, such person shall be

responsible for providing for the protection of such child by 
properly
securing him or her in an appropriate child restraint 
system. The
parent or legal guardian
of a child under the age 
of
8 years shall provide a child restraint system to any person 
who
transports
his or her child.

    When any person is transporting a child in this State who 
is under the age of 2 years in a motor vehicle of the first 
division or motor vehicle of the second division weighing 9,000 
pounds or less, he or she shall be responsible for properly 
securing the child in a rear-facing child restraint system, 
unless the child weighs 40 or more pounds or is 40 or more 
inches tall. 
    For purposes of this Section and Section 4b, "child 
restraint
system" means
any device which meets the standards of 
the United States Department of
Transportation designed to 
restrain, seat or position children, which also
includes a 
booster seat.

    A child weighing more than 40 pounds may be transported in 
the back seat
of a motor vehicle while wearing only a lap belt 
if the back seat of the motor
vehicle is not equipped with a 
combination lap and shoulder belt.

(Source: P.A. 95-254, eff. 1-1-08.)