1 - Drivers and passengers transported in motor vehicles are obliged to wear belts and other safety devices with which, by law, the vehicles are equipped.

2 - Regulations shall lay down

a) The exceptional conditions for exemption or waiver of the obligation to use the devices referred to in the previous paragraph;

b) The method of use and technical characteristics of these devices.

 

3 - Drivers and passengers of mopeds, motorcycles with or without sidecars, tricycles and quadricycles must protect their heads by wearing a helmet of an officially approved model, properly adjusted and fastened.

4 - Drivers and passengers of vehicles fitted with a rigid body or vehicles with both a rigid protective structure and safety belts are exempt from the provisions of the previous paragraph.

5 - (Repealed.)

6 - The driver of a tractor or agricultural or forestry machine must ensure that the roll-over protection structure is installed, in the case of a removable structure, or that it is raised in the service position, in the case of a folding structure.

7 - Anyone who does not use or incorrectly uses the safety devices provided for in this article shall be punished with a fine of (euro) 120 to (euro) 600.