Legal Documents of Maryville

Any person transporting a child/children under the age of four (4) years in a motor vehicle on the roadways, streets or highways of this city shall be responsible for providing for the protection of the child/children and properly using a child passenger restraint system meeting federal motor vehicle safety standards; provided, however, nothing in this section shall restrict a mother from removing the child from such system and holding the child when the mother is nursing the child, or attending to its other physiological needs; provided, that the term "motor vehicle," as used in this section, shall not apply to recreational vehicles of the truck or van type; provided further, that the term "motor vehicle," as used in this section, shall not apply to trucks having a tonnage rating of one (1) ton or more. (1999 Code, § 15-124)