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aroundlsu wrote:
What is there to know about the seatbelt law?
My girlfriend is a newspaper distributor and is exempt from wearing a seatbelt while delivering papers. She was stopped at a check point in Port Vincent and told to put on her seatbelt. She told him she was delivering the newspaper and was exempt from wearing one while doing that.He told her there were no exemptions. She told him she was told by a very good source (me)that she wasexempt and he said NO.
I called Troop A and told them what went down and they looked up the RS and told me that I was right. I already knew that. I printed a copy of the RS for her to give him the next weekend when she saw him at the roadblock again. The next weekend they were back at the same location and when she stopped she told him she had something for him and he started laughing and said he had already found out. I think the other Troopers ragged him about it.
From RS 32:295.1
[align=justify]C. This Section shall not apply to the following:[/align]
[align=justify](1) A motor vehicle operated by a rural letter carrier of the United States Postal Service while performing his or her duties as a rural letter carrier, to a farm vehicle being operated within five miles of the place of its principal use, to a motor vehicle being operated by a newspaper delivery person while he or she is engaged in the distribution of regularly published newspapers.[/align]