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This law was first created in 1982. The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapter 634 of that year\u2019s edition of \u201cActs of Assembly,\u201d the annual state publication listing all changes made to the Code of Virginia in that year. Unfortunately, the 1982 \u201cActs\u201d aren\u2019t available online. It has been modified 3 times. Those modifications are cataloged by \u201cThe Acts of Assembly,\u201d a state publication, by year and chapter. Those modifications that can be read on the General Assembly\u2019s website will be linked accordingly. Those modifications are as follows: in 1983, chapter 296; in 1989, chapter 727; in 2018, chapter 402<\/a>.<\/p>","references":[{"id":65037,"section_number":"46.2-1098","catch_line":"Penalties; violations not negligence per se","order_by":null,"url":"\/46.2-1098\/"}],"refers_to":false,"permalink":{"id":228783,"object_type":"law","relational_id":61124,"identifier":"46.2-1096","token":"46.2\/III\/10\/13\/46.2-1096","url":"\/46.2-1096\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/46.2-1096\/","token":"46.2\/III\/10\/13\/46.2-1096","dublin_core":{"Title":"Exceptions for certain children","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 46.2-1096","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

Whenever any physician licensed to practice medicine in the Commonwealth or any other state determines, through accepted medical procedures, that use of a child restraint system by a particular child would be impractical by reason of the child’s weight or height, physical unfitness, or other medical reason, the child shall be exempt from the provisions of this article. Any person transporting a child so exempted shall carry on his or her person or in the vehicle<\/span> a signed written statement of the physician identifying the child so exempted and stating the grounds therefor.<\/p><\/section>","plain_text":" CODE OF VIRGINIA\n\nEXCEPTIONS FOR CERTAIN CHILDREN (\u00a7 46.2-1096)\n\nWhenever any physician licensed to practice medicine in the Commonwealth or any\nother state determines, through accepted medical procedures, that use of a child\nrestraint system by a particular child would be impractical by reason of the\nchild’s weight or height, physical unfitness, or other medical reason, the\nchild shall be exempt from the provisions of this article. Any person\ntransporting a child so exempted shall carry on his or her person or in the\nvehicle a signed written statement of the physician identifying the child so\nexempted and stating the grounds therefor.\n\nHISTORY: 1982, c. 634, \u00a7 46.1-314.3; 1983, c. 296; 1989, c. 727; 2018, c. 402.","edition":{"id":1,"name":"2025","slug":"2025","date_created":"2026-06-21 22:39:22","date_modified":"2026-06-21 22:39:22","current":1,"order_by":1,"last_import":null}}