Public Act 097-0026

HB1222 Enrolled LRB097 06504 HEP 46588 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 6a as follows:

(625 ILCS 25/6a)

Sec. 6a. Child passenger safety instructional course.

(a) As used in this Section, "technician" means a person

who has successfully completed the U.S. Department of

Transportation National Highway Traffic Safety

Administration's (NHTSA) standardized National Child Passenger

Safety Certification Training Program and who maintains a

current child passenger safety technician or technician

instructor certification through the current certifying body

for the National Child Passenger Safety Training Program as

designated by the NHTSA.

(b) A person in violation of Section 4 of this Act may

schedule a child safety instructional course with a technician.

The instructional course shall include instruction on the

proper installation of a child restraint system. The

instructional course shall also include an inspection of the

child restraint system. At the time of scheduling, the

technician shall notify the person that the instructional

course must be completed prior to the mandatory court

appearance date on the person's citation for a violation of

Section 4 of this Act.

(c) Prior to beginning the instructional course, the person

must present a copy of the citation of a violation of Section 4

of this Act to the technician.

(d) The technician shall be observant for any citations

with the notation "no safety seat" in the notes field and

discuss with the person, for the purpose of determining the

person's need for a child restraint system, the person's

reasons for not transporting the child in a child restraint

system.

(e) Upon completion of the instructional course to the

satisfaction of the technician conducting the course, the

technician shall issue a letter to the person for presentation

in court. The letter shall:

(1) be printed on a form or in a manner required by the

Illinois Department of Transportation the technician's

letterhead;

(2) indicate that the person has voluntarily

participated in the instructional course and received

instruction from a technician regarding the proper use of

the person's child restraint system; and

(3) include (i) the date the instructional course was

completed, (ii) the citation number presented to the

technician under this Section, (iii) the county in which

the citation was issued, and (iv) the technician's

signature and technician number.

(Source: P.A. 96-914, eff. 1-1-11.)

Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect January

1, 2012.