{"id":375,"date":"2017-06-07T18:20:32","date_gmt":"2017-06-07T18:20:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/busybeeschildcare.net\/home\/?p=375"},"modified":"2017-06-07T18:20:32","modified_gmt":"2017-06-07T18:20:32","slug":"2017-car-seat-law-regulations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/busybeeschildcare.net\/home\/index.php\/2017\/06\/07\/2017-car-seat-law-regulations\/","title":{"rendered":"2017 Car Seat Law Regulations"},"content":{"rendered":"<style type=\"text\/css\"><\/style><h1 id=\"pageTitle\" data-name=\"Page Field: Title\"><strong>Current California Law:<\/strong><\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li>Children under 2 years of age shall ride in a rear-facing car seat unless the child weighs 40 or more pounds OR is 40 or more inches tall. The child shall be secured in a manner that complies with the height and weight limits specified by the manufacturer of the car seat.<\/li>\n<li>\u200bChildren under the age of 8 must be secured in a car seat or booster seat in the back seat.<\/li>\n<li>Children who are 8 years of age OR have reached 4\u20199\u201d in height must be secured by a safety belt.<\/li>\n<li>Passengers who are 16 years of age and over are subject to California&#8217;s Mandatory Seat Belt law.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you&#8217;re not confident of how to properly secure your child in a safety seat, contact your local CHP Area Office, and ask to speak with a child passenger safety technician.\u00a0Click on this link to locate a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.chp.ca.gov\/find-an-office\">local Area Office <\/a>anywhere in California.<\/p>\n<p><strong>When can a child graduate to a booster seat?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>California law does not address graduation time from a five point harness to a booster seat. In the interest of safety, do not rush to move a child into a booster seat before they\u2019re ready. Each time you \u201cgraduate\u201d your child to the next seat, there\u2019s a reduction in the level of protection for your child. Keep your child in each stage for as long as possible.<\/p>\n<p>A child is ready for a booster seat when they have outgrown the weight or height limit of their forward-facing harnesses, which is typically between 40 and 65 pounds. Read the forward-facing car seat\u2019s owner\u2019s manual to determine height and weight limits, and keep your child in a harnessed seat for as long as possible.<\/p>\n<p>Children at this stage are not yet ready for adult safety belts and should use belt-positioning booster seats until they are at least 4\u20199\u2033 and between 8 and 12 years old. Safety belts are designed for 165-pound male adults, so it\u2019s no wonder that research shows poorly fitting adult belts can injure children.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Current California Law: Children under 2 years of age shall ride in a rear-facing car seat unless the child weighs 40 or more pounds OR is 40 or more inches&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-healthy-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/busybeeschildcare.net\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/busybeeschildcare.net\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/busybeeschildcare.net\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/busybeeschildcare.net\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/busybeeschildcare.net\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=375"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/busybeeschildcare.net\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":376,"href":"http:\/\/busybeeschildcare.net\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375\/revisions\/376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/busybeeschildcare.net\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/busybeeschildcare.net\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/busybeeschildcare.net\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}