House Backs Evers Plan To Unbuckle Rural Letter Carriers

April 27, 2015

Despite safety concerns raised by some lawmakers, the House have given final approval to a bill by Sen. Greg. Evers that would exempt rural letter carriers from the state’s mandatory seat-belt law. House members voted 88-28 to approve the bill, which earlier passed the Senate and is ready to go to Gov. Rick Scott.

The bill would apply to rural letter carriers who often need to stretch across their front seats to reach for mailboxes.

But Rep. Irv Slosberg, a Boca Raton Democrat who was an outspoken opponent of the bill, argued that it could lead to requests from other groups, such as package-delivery services, for exemptions to seat-belt requirements.

Florida allows police to stop motorists for not wearing seat belts, a concept known as primary enforcement. “Primary enforcement is the law of the land, and I don’t think we should tinker with it,” Slosberg said.

by The News Service of Florida

Comments

3 Responses to “House Backs Evers Plan To Unbuckle Rural Letter Carriers”

  1. BLT on April 27th, 2015 4:41 pm

    If they put in a provision that letter carriers can carry guns, it would get passed in a heartbeat.

  2. M in Bratt on April 27th, 2015 4:31 pm

    Let’s take this law a step farther, unbuckle all of us. It should be a matter of choice whether I or anybody else has on a seat belt in our own vehicles. When Fl. passed seat belt laws the policy was that no traffic stops were made solely because of seat belt violations, and the fine was only $25. Now LEOs use seat belt violations (imaginary and real) to randomly stop anybody they want to, and the fine is around $200. The truth is, while a cop is busy writing granny a seat belt ticket, he isn’t likely to be confronted by any real criminal.

  3. EMD on April 27th, 2015 6:27 am

    Where is common sense anymore. Laws should NOT be blind. I thought THAT is why we have judges. Why bother?

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