2015 National Meet question about seat belts

[Don/WI]

Does anyone know if it is required to have seat belts installed in our Model A's if we go to Canada for the 2015 MARC National Meet? Thanks for any response. Don/WI

[dr.j]

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No! Ontario law dictates that if the vehicle had seatbelts at time of manufacturing, they must be worn.


Seat Belt Exemptions

Seatbelt exemptions continue to include:

• Driving a motor vehicle in reverse
• People with medical certificates saying that they are unable to wear a seatbelt
• People engaged in work that requires them to exit from and re-enter the vehicle at frequent intervals, as long as they are traveling less than 40 km/h
• Police or peace officers while transporting a person in custody
• Person in police custody while being transported
• Employees and agents of Canada Post engaged in rural mail delivery
• Ambulance attendants and any other persons being transported in the patient's compartment of an ambulance
• Firefighters in the rear of a fire department vehicle while engaged in work that makes it impractical to wear a seatbelt
• Taxi cab drivers while transporting a passenger for hire. When travelling alone in the vehicle, taxi cab drivers must wear a seatbelt.

For vehicles that were not manufactured with seatbelts, the following exemptions apply:

• Buses (including school buses)
• Other large commercial vehicles (over 4,536 kg), which do not require seatbelts to be installed in rear seating positions at the time of manufacture
• Historic vehicles that were not manufactured with seatbelts