A ticket given to a 10-year-old Central Texas boy for not properly wearing his seat belt has been dismissed.
A police officer in Leander, just north of Austin, pulled over the van Marshall May's 19-year-old aunt was driving on May 31. The boy says his seat belt slipped when he stuck his head out the window.
Court records show the officer filed a request for dismissal a day after issuing the ticket.
Texas law says a person must be at least 15 years old to commit such an offense. If a child isn't properly secured by a seat belt, the adult in the car would be at fault. The boy's aunt didn't get a ticket.
Municipal court administrator Barbara Shannon tells the Austin American-Statesman that the ticket was dismissed Thursday.
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