Bill Text: MI HB4550 | 2011-2012 | 96th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Transportation; school vehicles; inspections of school buses; revise. Amends sec. 715a of 1949 PA 300 (MCL 257.715a).

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-04-14 - Printed Bill Filed 04/14/2011 [HB4550 Detail]

Download: Michigan-2011-HB4550-Introduced.html

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HOUSE BILL No. 4550

 

April 13, 2011, Introduced by Rep. LeBlanc and referred to the Committee on Education.

 

     A bill to amend 1949 PA 300, entitled

 

"Michigan vehicle code,"

 

by amending section 715a (MCL 257.715a), as amended by 1984 PA 269.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 715a. (1) A school bus, bus, or other motor vehicle with

 

a manufacturers rated seating capacity of 12 or more which that is

 

owned, leased, or used by a nonpublic school, religious

 

organization, nonprofit youth organization, nonprofit

 

rehabilitation facility, or senior citizen center for the

 

transportation of passengers shall not be operated on a highway

 

unless the vehicle has been inspected. as provided in this section.

 

     (2) The department of state police shall may inspect each

 

school bus, bus, or other motor vehicle with a manufacturers rated

 

seating capacity of 12 or more, which that is owned, leased, or

 

used by a nonpublic school, religious organization, nonprofit youth

 

organization, nonprofit rehabilitation facility, or senior citizen

 

center for the transportation of passengers, annually, and more

 

frequently if defects are found in the organization's vehicles, to

 

determine if the vehicles meet the specifications of the department

 

of state police. The department of state police may delegate the

 

inspection of vehicles under this section to publicly employed

 

inspectors if the inspections comply with this section.

 

     (3) The department of state police shall may promulgate rules

 

for safety equipment for a school bus, bus, or other motor vehicle

 

regulated under this section pursuant according to Act No. 306 of

 

the Public Acts of 1969, as amended, being sections 24.201 to

 

24.315 of the Michigan Compiled Laws the administrative procedures

 

act, 1969 PA 306, MCL 24.201 to 24.328.