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Legislation aims to tighten North Dakota seat belt law

By Doug Barrett Jan 11, 2021 | 1:33 PM

A bipartisan group of lawmakers want to tighten North Dakota’s seat belt law to allow police to pull over anyone they see driving unbuckled – or any of their passengers. It’s the latest in a decades-old and contentious effort to encourage more seat belt use among North Dakota drivers. Advocates of the so-called primary-enforcement idea have been rebuffed repeatedly in the Republican-led Legislature. North Dakota’s current law is a ″secondary enforcement″ provision, meaning that police may not pull over a motorist simply for not being belted. Police first must see the driver committing another violation such as speeding.

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