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Ark. Code Ann. § 27-34-104 (2026)

Requirements

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  1. While operating a motor vehicle on a public road, street, or highway of this state, a driver who transports a child under fifteen (15) years of age in a passenger automobile, van, or pickup truck, other than one operated for hire, shall provide for the protection of the child by properly placing, maintaining, and securing the child in a child passenger restraint system properly secured to the vehicle and meeting applicable federal motor vehicle safety standards in effect on January 1, 1995.
  2. A child who is less than six (6) years of age and who weighs less than sixty pounds (60 lbs.) shall be restrained in a child passenger safety seat properly secured to the vehicle.
  3. If a child is at least six (6) years of age or at least sixty pounds (60 lbs.) in weight, a safety belt properly secured to the vehicle shall be sufficient to meet the requirements of this section.

History. Acts 1983, No. 749, § 2; A.S.A. 1947, § 75-2602; Acts 1995, No. 1274, § 2; 2001, No. 470, § 1; 2003, No. 1776, § 3; 2013, No. 224, § 1.

Amendments. The 2013 amendment rewrote (a).

Cross References. Safety equipment generally, § 27-37-202 et seq.

Notes of Decisions
Cited in 4 cases (2 in the last 5 years), 2020–2021 · leading case: Samantha Edwards, Individually & as Special Adm'x of the Est. of William Bobby Wray Edwards, & Arleigh Grayce Edwards, Deceased; & as Parent & Next Friend for Peyton Hale, a Minor v. Eric James Cornell Thomas & McElroy Truck Lines, Inc., 2021 Ark. 140 (Ark. 2021).
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Samantha Edwards, Individually & as Special Adm'x of the Est. of William Bobby Wray Edwards, & Arleigh Grayce Edwards, Deceased; & as Parent & Next Friend for Peyton Hale, a Minor v. Eric James Cornell Thomas & McElroy Truck Lines, Inc., 2021 Ark. 140 (Ark. 2021). · cites it 4× “3 Ark. Code Ann. § 27-34-104 . Any person who violates the CPPA is subject to a fine of not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than one hundred dollars.”
Kroll v. Thomas (W.D. Ark. 2020). · cites it 14× “” Ark. Code Ann. § 27-34-104 (b). Any child who is at least six years old or at least sixty pounds in weight may instead be buckled in with “a safety belt properly secured to the vehicle.”
Kroll v. Thomas (W.D. Ark. 2021). · cites it 3× “However, the Court also noted that “if subsequent evidence 1 See Ark. Code Ann. § 27-34-104 (b), which states that “[a] child who is less than six (6) years of age and who weighs less than sixty pounds (60 lbs.”
Kroll v. Thomas (W.D. Ark. 2020). · cites it 2× “Ark. Code Ann. § 27-34-104 (a). The CPPA requires the use of different restraint systems depending on the age and weight of the child.”
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