Posted on 08/19/2009 11:42:49 AM PDT by trumandogz
Texas law already requires buckling up in the front seat, and starting Sept. 1, it'll be the law to do so in the back seat, too.
The change affects people ages 17 and older; those 16 and younger already are required to wear a seat belt in the back seat
(Excerpt) Read more at statesman.com ...
So the cop that wants to call in my driving through a school zone, talking on the phone needs to stop his vehicle before he uses his Motorola police radio, since it's a 'wireless device'. Or is there a loophole for cops?
Whatever happened to FCC federal preemtion? As a radio operator, I'm going to ignore this law.
/johnny
Gotta protect them Insurers corporate profit margins. Didn’t you know that is now the primary function of today’s government? Such has been the case for decades naow and some feel insurers are entitled to do so. Saddly they call themselves conservatives in some cases. Many laws are centered around it now.
He’s better than lefty frizzell, or whatever that crackpots name is who was going to have Willie “Up In Smoke” Nelson as Energy Secretary. He’s also better than Kay Bailey Hutchison, by a long shot.
I don’t agree with Gov Goodhair on toll roads, or the illegal invasion, but I certainly don’t agree with those other two, either.
Things are certainly easier to change on a state level than a federal level. If the voters of Texas don’t like the ruling, throw the bums out! I bet that someone running against this law would get many votes.
I guess there isn’t a point where they can run out of stupid nanny-statist laws to concoct. As evidenced with this stupidity, they’ll always be able to go “one better.”
Note that it was a transplant from the Nanny State of California that got the ball rolling on this one.
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