Walk It Through: The Car Seat

By age, by weight and by height, and a charge dismissed for a seat acquired.

A parent drives a toddler who weighs under forty pounds.

Two things a person in this spot might do. Picking one shows what the law says about it.

One family's car. Public carriers for hire, school buses, and children sixteen and under in other seats are not worked through here.

A practice walkthrough, not a prediction of how any real one will go. Legal information, not legal advice.

Words this turns on

Terms with a legal meaning that is narrower than the everyday one. Each links to the definition and the authority behind it.

Child booster seatA seating system meeting federal safety standards that is designed to elevate a child to properly sit in a federally approved safety belt system. A child at least four years of age but less than eight years of age, at least forty pounds but less than eighty pounds, and less than four feet, nine inches tall rides in one or in a child passenger restraint system.