Bill Text: MI HB4549 | 2011-2012 | 96th Legislature | Introduced

---

Bill Title: Transportation; school vehicles; school district inspection of school buses; revise. Amends secs. 39, 41 & 43 of 1990 PA 187 (MCL 257.1839 et seq.).

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-04-14 - Printed Bill Filed 04/14/2011 [HB4549 Detail]

Download: Michigan-2011-HB4549-Introduced.html

---

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

< Do not remove

 

without State Police authorization." The sticker shall remain until

 

the condition is corrected. A school bus may be transported to a

 

maintenance facility for repair if the school bus driver provides

 

written proof of destination to a state police an inspecting

 

official upon request.

 

     (3) A school bus that is considered to be in unsatisfactory

 

condition, but that is safe for operation, shall have affixed to

 

its windshield by the state police inspecting official a yellow

 

sticker which that shall read as follows: "This vehicle has

 

equipment defects. {reverse side} Repairs and reinspection shall be

 

obtained on or before _____. Do not remove without State Police

 

authorization." If, upon reinspection, the vehicle defect has not

 

been repaired, replaced, or corrected, the state police inspecting

 

official shall remove the yellow sticker and affix a red sticker to

 

the vehicle. Exceptions may be made when the necessary parts or

 

equipment has been ordered but not received at the time of

 

reinspection. Reinspection may take place within 60 days after the

 

original inspection.

 

     (4) A school bus that is considered to be in satisfactory

 

condition after inspection by a state police an inspecting official

 

shall have a Michigan vehicle inspection passing sticker affixed to

 

its windshield. The owner of a school bus shall remove or destroy

 

the pass sticker before selling the school bus. The display of a

 

pass sticker on a vehicle other than a school bus is a state civil

 

infraction. All stickers are the property of the department of

 

state police.

 

     Sec. 43. The department of state police shall may inspect a

 

new school bus before a school accepts delivery. The department of

 

state police shall may determine whether the new vehicle is

 

acceptable for delivery. The department of state police may

 

delegate the inspection of new school buses to publicly employed

 

inspectors if the inspection complies with this subsection. A

 

school shall not accept delivery of a new school bus unless the new

 

vehicle has been inspected and passed by the department of state

 

police or other inspecting official under this subsection and title

 

to the school bus has been obtained by the school in compliance

 

with this act.