Seat belt law exceptions — Alaska Permit Test

Passengers in an emergency vehicle are an exception to Alaska's seat belt law.

Crews and patients in an ambulance may need to move about to give care on the way to the hospital.

Passengers in an emergency vehicle.

Vehicles built prior to 1965 that did not have safety belts as original equipment, and are not classified as custom collector vehicles, are an exception to the seat belt law.

A car built without belts has no belts to wear, so the law does not ask the impossible of its riders.

Vehicles built prior to 1965 which did not have safety belts as original equipment and are not classified as a custom collector vehicle.

Drivers delivering mail or newspapers from inside the vehicle to roadside boxes in the course of their work are an exception to the seat belt law.

A carrier who stops at every box would unbuckle hundreds of times a day, while crawling along at very low speed.

Vehicle operators acting in the course of employment delivering mail or newspapers from inside the vehicle to roadside boxes.

Passengers in a school bus are an exception to the seat belt law unless the bus is required to be equipped with safety belts.

School buses protect riders with high padded seats, so the belt rule applies only to buses the law requires to have belts.

Passengers in a school bus unless the bus is required to be equipped with safety belts.

Which of these is an exception to Alaska's seat belt law?

Passengers in an emergency vehicle. Crews and patients in an ambulance may need to move about to give care on the way to the hospital. Alaska Driver Manual, p.27: “Passengers in an emergency vehicle.”