PRINTER'S NO. 1193
No. 1037 Session of 2005
INTRODUCED BY T. STEVENSON, BISHOP, BLACKWELL, CALTAGIRONE,
CAWLEY, GINGRICH, GOODMAN, HARHAI, JAMES, KENNEY, LEACH,
LEDERER, MARSICO, ROEBUCK, SHAPIRO AND YOUNGBLOOD,
MARCH 21, 2005
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION, MARCH 21, 2005
AN ACT
1 Amending Title 75 (Vehicles) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
2 Statutes, further providing for general requirements for
3 school buses.
4 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
5 hereby enacts as follows:
6 Section 1. Section 4552(d) of Title 75 of the Pennsylvania
7 Consolidated Statutes is amended to read:
8 § 4552. General requirements for school buses.
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10 (d) Seating.--Adequate seating space of safe design and
11 construction shall be provided for each passenger and no
12 passenger shall be carried for which adequate seating space is
13 not available and used. The seats on every school bus shall be
14 fitted with retractable seat belts. No passenger shall be
15 carried for whom a seat belt is not available. Each passenger
16 shall use a seat belt when the school bus is in motion.
17 * * *
1 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 90 days.
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