PRINTER'S NO. 1111
No. 970 Session of 2001
INTRODUCED BY T. STEVENSON, BARD, BISHOP, CAWLEY, COSTA, CRUZ,
FRANKEL, HARHAI, JAMES, KIRKLAND, LEDERER, LEVDANSKY,
MARSICO, McCALL, MELIO, MICOZZIE, MYERS, ORIE, READSHAW,
WALKO, WASHINGTON, WATERS, YOUNGBLOOD, YUDICHAK AND TRELLO,
MARCH 14, 2001
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION, MARCH 14, 2001
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.
9 * * *
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 all buses shall be fitted
14 with retractable seat belts. No passenger shall be carried for
15 whom a seat belt is not available. Each passenger shall use a
16 seat belt when the bus is in motion.
17 * * *
1 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 90 days.
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