Whats the fine?
Anyone know?
§ 20-140.4. Special provisions for motorcycles and mopeds.
(a) No person shall operate a motorcycle or moped upon a highway or public
vehicular area:
(1) When the number of persons upon such motorcycle or moped, including
the operator, shall exceed the number of persons which it was designed
to carry.
(2) Unless the operator and all passengers thereon wear safety helmets of a
type approved by the Commissioner of Motor Vehicles.
(b) Violation of any provision of this section shall not be considered negligence
per se or contributory negligence per se in any civil action.
(c)
Any person convicted of violating this section shall have committed an
infraction and shall be fined according to G.S. 20-135.2A(e) and (f). (1973, c. 1330, s. 6;
1989, c. 711, s. 1.)
20‑135.2A. (See Editor's note) Seat belt use mandatory.
(a) Except as otherwise provided in G.S. 20‑137.1, each occupant of a motor vehicle manufactured with seat belts shall have a seatbelt properly fastened about his or her body at all times when the vehicle is in forward motion on a street or highway in this State.
(b) Repealed by Session Laws 2006‑140, s. 1, effective December 1, 2006.
(c) This section shall not apply to any of the following:
(1) A driver or occupant of a noncommercial motor vehicle with a medical or physical condition that prevents appropriate restraint by a safety belt or with a professionally certified mental phobia against the wearing of vehicle restraints;
(2) A motor vehicle operated by a rural letter carrier of the United States Postal Service while performing duties as a rural letter carrier and a motor vehicle operated by a newspaper delivery person while actually engaged in delivery of newspapers along the person's specified route;
(3) A driver or passenger frequently stopping and leaving the vehicle or delivering property from the vehicle if the speed of the vehicle between stops does not exceed 20 miles per hour;
(4) Any vehicle registered and licensed as a property‑carrying vehicle in accordance with G.S. 20‑88, while being used for agricultural purposes in intrastate commerce;
(5) A motor vehicle not required to be equipped with seat safety belts under federal law; or
(6) Any occupant of a motor home, as defined in G.S. 20‑4.01(27)d2, other than the driver and front seat passengers.
(d) Evidence of failure to wear a seat belt shall not be admissible in any criminal or civil trial, action, or proceeding except in an action based on a violation of this section or as justification for the stop of a vehicle or detention of a vehicle operator and passengers.
(d1) Failure of a rear seat occupant of a vehicle to wear a seat belt shall not be justification for the stop of a vehicle.
(e) Any driver or front seat passenger who fails to wear a seat belt as required by this section shall have committed an infraction and shall pay a penalty of twenty‑five dollars ($25.00) plus court costs in the sum of seventy‑five dollars ($75.00). Any rear seat occupant of a vehicle who fails to wear a seat belt as required by this section shall have committed an infraction and shall pay a penalty of ten dollars ($10.00) and no court costs. Court costs assessed under this section are for the support of the General Court of Justice and shall be remitted to the State Treasurer. Conviction of an infraction under this section has no other consequence.
(f) No drivers license points or insurance surcharge shall be assessed on account of violation of this section.Looks like it will be $100.00 w/no points against your license.
Ride Safe,
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