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Title 15 : Motor Vehicles, Traffic and Parking
Chapter 1 : Miscellaneous

15-125 : Child passenger restraint systems.

  1. Any person transporting a child under four (4) years of age in a motor vehicle upon a road, street, or highway of Tennessee is responsible for providing for the protection of the child and properly using a child passenger restraint system meeting federal motor vehicle safety standards. Nothing in this subsection restricts a mother from removing the child from the restraint system and holding the child when the mother is nursing the child.
  2. Any person transporting a child, between four (4) and eight (8) years of age who weighs less than forty (40) pounds, in a motor vehicle upon a road, street or highway of Tennessee is responsible for providing for the protection of the child and properly using a separate carrier, an integrated child seat or a belt positioning booster seat.
  3. Any person transporting any child, between four (4) and eight (8) years of age who weighs forty (40) pounds or more, or any child, between eight (8) and fifteen (15) years of age, in a passenger motor vehicle upon a road, street or highway of Tennessee in responsible for the protection of the child and properly using a passenger restraint system, including safety belts, meeting federal motor vehicle safety standards. (as added by Ord. #02-29, June 2002)