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| 1 | AN ACT concerning transportation.
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| 2 | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, | ||||||
| 3 | represented in the General Assembly:
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| 4 | Section 5. The Child Passenger Protection Act is amended by | ||||||
| 5 | changing Section 6a as follows: | ||||||
| 6 | (625 ILCS 25/6a) | ||||||
| 7 | Sec. 6a. Child passenger safety instructional course. | ||||||
| 8 | (a) As used in this Section, "technician" means a person | ||||||
| 9 | who has successfully completed the U.S. Department of
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| 10 | Transportation National Highway Traffic Safety | ||||||
| 11 | Administration's (NHTSA) standardized National Child Passenger | ||||||
| 12 | Safety Certification Training Program and who maintains a
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| 13 | current child passenger safety technician or technician | ||||||
| 14 | instructor certification through the current
certifying body | ||||||
| 15 | for the National Child Passenger Safety Training Program as | ||||||
| 16 | designated by the
NHTSA. | ||||||
| 17 | (b) A person in violation of Section 4 of this Act may | ||||||
| 18 | schedule a child safety instructional course with a technician. | ||||||
| 19 | The instructional course shall include instruction on the | ||||||
| 20 | proper installation of a child restraint system. The | ||||||
| 21 | instructional course shall also include an inspection of the | ||||||
| 22 | child restraint system. At the time of scheduling, the | ||||||
| 23 | technician shall notify the person that the instructional | ||||||
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| 1 | course must be completed prior to the mandatory court | ||||||
| 2 | appearance date on the person's citation for a violation of | ||||||
| 3 | Section 4 of this Act. | ||||||
| 4 | (c) Prior to beginning the instructional course, the person | ||||||
| 5 | must present a copy of the citation of a violation of Section 4 | ||||||
| 6 | of this Act to the technician. | ||||||
| 7 | (d) The technician shall be observant for any citations | ||||||
| 8 | with the notation "no safety seat" in the notes field and | ||||||
| 9 | discuss with the person, for the purpose of determining the | ||||||
| 10 | person's need for a child restraint system, the person's | ||||||
| 11 | reasons for not transporting the child in a child restraint | ||||||
| 12 | system. | ||||||
| 13 | (e) Upon completion of the instructional course to the | ||||||
| 14 | satisfaction of the technician conducting the course, the | ||||||
| 15 | technician shall issue a letter to the person for presentation | ||||||
| 16 | in court. The letter shall: | ||||||
| 17 | (1) be printed on a form or in a manner required by the | ||||||
| 18 | Illinois Department of
Transportation the technician's | ||||||
| 19 | letterhead; | ||||||
| 20 | (2) indicate that the person has voluntarily | ||||||
| 21 | participated in the instructional course and received | ||||||
| 22 | instruction from a technician regarding the proper use of | ||||||
| 23 | the person's child restraint system; and | ||||||
| 24 | (3) include (i) the date the instructional course was | ||||||
| 25 | completed, (ii) the citation number presented to the | ||||||
| 26 | technician under this Section, (iii) the county in which | ||||||
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| 1 | the citation was issued, and (iv) the technician's | ||||||
| 2 | signature and technician number.
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| 3 | (Source: P.A. 96-914, eff. 1-1-11.)
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| 4 | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect January | ||||||
| 5 | 1, 2011.
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