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Is a seat belt ticket considered a moving violation??
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Posted by: Mustang5L5

I just got a 45 in a 35. My first ticket really. Not bad considering.

Anyway, when i pulled over, i yanked the e-brake and instinctively took my seatbelt off. It's a habit. Anyway halfway through it i realized what i was doing and put it back on. Officer thought i was putting it on for the first time. He wouldn't let me explain at all.

Anyway, is it considered a moving violation? If it's not, then i'll eat the $35...but if it is, i would want to fight it since I really was wearing it.

All i found was this. Last paragraph

http://www.mass.gov/legis/laws/mgl/90-13a.htm

Kinda pissed more about the seatbelt thing. The speeding doesn't bother me. If that's all it was i would just pay. Look at we we do on some of our cruises...i was due

Off to play some grand theft auto to vent.

Posted by: lxfiveo

No it isn't. I found this out when complaining at a hearing over an expired inspection sticker....was amazed that a sticker could be a moving violation with points associated with it....they explained everything is except seatbelt violations.

BTW, they let me off as I showed them that I got a new sticker later that day.

Posted by: Mustang5L5

Ok good. It's not worth it for me to skip out of work to go fight a $35 seat belt ticket.

But i'm wondering if i should appeal it anyway. It's only a 45 in a 35 on a wide open 2-lane road and i have a perfect record since i was 16...Hmm...

Posted by: bullitt5177

I always fight the ticket, no matter what for. The worst that can happen is that you end up paying the same anyways. Anyways, that's what personal days are for.

Posted by: lxfiveo

Fight it Mike....the only ones I ever see get off are the ones with no priors (trust me, I've been to more than a few ticket hearings).

Posted by: LILBLKSNAKE

Quote:

Originally Posted by lxfiveo

(trust me, I've been to more than a few ticket hearings).

I don't believe that

Posted by: Comp04GT

if you havent gotten any tickets then fight it. usually they go by the three year clean record and they'll let you off. just plead good driving record.

Posted by: LILBLKSNAKE

Tell them you didn't know where you were and were trying to keep up with Kevin

Posted by: Mustang5L5

If they dismiss the ticket...will it show up on my record in the future?

Posted by: dustindu4

no it will be clean

the ticket i got for no mufflers was 35 too and my insurance never went up, it has since gone down