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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>61124</law_id><section_number>46.2-1096</section_number><catch_line>Exceptions for certain children</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>46.2-1098</reference></referred_to_by><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="46.2">Motor Vehicles</unit><unit label="subtitle" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="III">Operation</unit><unit label="chapter" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="10">Motor Vehicle and Equipment Safety</unit><unit label="article" level="4" order_by="1" identifier="13">Child Restraints</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>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&#x2019;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 <span class="dictionary">vehicle</span> a signed written statement of the physician identifying the child so exempted and stating the grounds therefor.</p></section></text><history>1982, c. 634, &#xA7; 46.1-314.3; 1983, c. 296; 1989, c. 727; 2018, c. 402.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
