The child must be in a safety seat if they are younger than 8 or smaller than 4'9".
1. When must you use a child safety seat?
No special law exists to children riding in the front seat. Texas requires all children under 8 years of age or under 4'9" to ride in child safety seats. Texas law requires front seat occupants drivers and passengers to be in seat belts.
There are no laws concerning children and front seats. There is a law about children and the use of child safety seats.
This is true in Florida seat belt are child's safety seat! True
Although there is no law that prevents youngsters from sitting in the front seat of a vehicle in TX at this time, the safest place for a child in a car is in a rear seat, properly buckled into a child safety seat or a booster seat. Air bag safety issues suggest children 12 and under ought not to be placed in front of an air bag though.
The age in which a child can stop using a car seat or booster seat varies from state to state. In Michigan, the child safety seat law says that a child under the age of eight years old must be in a safety seat unless they are taller than 4' 9.
Although there is no law that prevents youngsters from sitting in the front seat of a vehicle, the safest place for a child in a car is in a rear seat, properly buckled into a child safety seat or a booster seat. Air bags don't replace child safety seats and may increase the risk of serious injury to children. Children younger than 13 should never ride in the front seats of vehicles with active passenger air bags. http://www.txdps.state.tx.us/director_staff/Public_information/pr090705.htm
Mississippi law requires that every person transporting a child under the age of 4 has to provide a belt positioning booster seat system.
A child safety seat in the back seat.
In Illinois the law is that any child under the age of eight years old must be secured in a child safety seat. Any person over eight must be using a seat belt.
Per the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, Maryland has no law expressing a preference for the rear seat. Maryland's laws pertain only to child restraint and adult safety belt usage.
Until a child is taller than 42" they are supposed to be in a car seat, no matter how old. It goes by height, not age.