No person shall sell or operate any passenger automobile manufactured after July 1, 1966, and registered in the State unless such passenger automobile is equipped with at least two sets of seat saftey belts for the front seat of the passenger automobile and the anchorage units necessary for their attachment or other suitable restraining device. Such seat safety belts and anchorage units or such restraining device shall be of a type approved by the Director of the Division of Motor Vehicles in the Department of Law and Public Safety, and in making any such approval the director shall be guided by the specifications of the Society of Automotive Engineers and the standards of the Federal Department of Transportation.
39:3-76.2a Transporting Children
Every person operating a motor vehicle equipped with safety belts who is transporting a child under the age of 8 years, or less than 80 lbs. on roadways, streets or highways of this State, shall be responsible for the protection of the child by properly using a child passenger restraint system/booster seat that complies with the federal motor vehicle safety standard applicable when it was manufactured, or where the child is 18 months of age or more but under 8 years of age or less than 80 pounds by securing the child with a booster seat in a rear. If there are no rear seats, a child restraint system must be used. In no event shall failure to wear a child passenger restraint system be considered as contributory negligence, nor shall the failure to wear the child passenger restraint system be admissible as evidence in the trial of any civil action.
39:3-76.2f Required Wearing of Seat Belts
a. Children under five years of age and except as provided in subsection b. of this section for passengers who are at least five years of age but less than 18 years of age, each driver and front seat passenger of a passenger automobile operated on a street or highway in this State shall wear a properly adjusted and fastened safety seat belt system as defined by Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard Number 209.
b. The driver of a passenger automobile shall secure or cause to be secured in a properly adjusted and fastened safety seat belt system, as defined by Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard Number 209, any passenger in the front seat who is at least five years of age but less than 18 years of age.
Penalty for Seat Belt Violations is $41.00
39:4-98 Rates of Speed
a. Twenty-five miles per hour, when passing through a school zone during recess, when the presence of children is clearly visible from the roadway, or while children are going to or leaving school, during opening or closing hours.
b. (1) Twenty-five miles per hour in any business or residential district;(2) Thirty-five miles per hour in any suburban business or residential district.
c. Fifty miles per hour in all other locations, except as otherwise posted and provided in the "Sixty-Five MPH Speed Limit Implementation Act".
"SPEEDING FINES"
1-9MPH Over $77.00
10-14MPH Over $87.00
15-19MPH Over $97.00
20-24MPH Over $192.00
25-29MPH Over $212.00
30-34MPH Over $232.00
These Fines Do Not Include Court Costs or Insurance Surcharges.
