Public Act 095-0254
 		





SB0071 Enrolled
LRB095 04152 DRH 24190 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
a 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.  Any person who 
transports the child of another shall not
be in violation of 
this Section unless a child restraint system was
provided by 
the parent or legal guardian but not used to transport the 
child.

    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. 93-100, eff. 1-1-04.)