So why did the Senate not make the use of cellphones while driving a primary offense?
Sometimes they confront people whose primary offense, many argue, is skin tone.
The Browns bounce back from a shellacking at Tampa Bay with receiver Dennis Northcutt producing huge plays on special teams and in the primary offense.
The new law would make texting while driving a primary offense, meaning the police could pull over drivers simply because they were fiddling with hand-held electronics.
Bias is inevitably named as my primary offense: it constitutes the only point of agreement between those who think I am a shill for the Chinese government and those who believe I have long been brainwashed by the West.
This evolutionary theory is looking sound so far: a number of high-school teams in Oregon, Illinois and Kentucky, as well as in California, are now using the A-11 as their primary offense.
Under Marlboro's ordinance, which carries a $250 fine, using a hand-held cell phone while driving is a primary offense, meaning the police can stop a motorist purely for using the phone.
His death inspired a law signed last year that made texting while driving a primary offense, meaning that the police no longer need a separate reason to pull over drivers before citing them for texting while driving.
Ultimately, no behavioral code could ward off rape; try as we might to walk in lighted places, our primary offense in the case of an assault would simply, as always, be that of being female.
States with secondary laws, in which the police may only enforce distraction laws if the driver is observed committing a primary offense, would not be eligible for the grants.
The measure signed yesterday, however, elevates the seat belt requirement to what is known as a primary offense; it goes into effect May 1. Supporters of the measure, including Assemblyman Herb Conaway, a Democrat from Delran who is the legislature's only licensed physician, had contended that the measure would save lives.
