The City Council, meeting in regular session on March 20, 2012, hereby adopts 47 O.S. § 11-1119, commonly referred to as the Forget-Me-Not Vehicle Safety Act and provides for fines as set forth by statute. This provision in said Chapter 11, Rules of the Road, shall be enforced as other traffic offenses adopted by reference from state offenses rules of the road in 47 O.S. Chapter 11.
(A) As used in the Forget-Me-Not Vehicle Safety Act:
MOTOR VEHICLE. The same as defined in 47 O.S. § 1-134.
PERSON RESPONSIBLE FOR A CHILD. A custodial parent or legal guardian of a child, or a person who has been directed or authorized to supervise a child by that child’s custodial parent or legal guardian.
UNATTENDED. Beyond a person’s direct ability to care for or come to the aid of the unaccompanied person.
(B) A person responsible for a child who is six years of age or younger, or a caretaker of a vulnerable adult as defined by 43A O.S. § 10-103, shall not leave that child or vulnerable adult unattended in a motor vehicle if the conditions, including, but not limited to, extreme weather, inadequate ventilation, or hazardous or malfunctioning components within the vehicle present a risk to the health or safety of the unattended child or vulnerable adult.
(C) It shall not be considered a violation of this section if the child or vulnerable adult is accompanied in the motor vehicle by a person at least 12 years of age who is not mentally incompetent as defined by 43A O.S. § 1-103.
(D) Nothing in this section precludes prosecution under any other provision of law.
(Prior Code, § 5-2D-12) (Ord. 746, passed 3-20-2012) Penalty, see § 133.99