Bill Text: MI HB5742 | 2009-2010 | 95th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Transportation; school vehicles; school district inspection of school buses based on certification of school bus mechanics by the state police; revise. Amends sec. 715a of 1949 PA 300 (MCL 257.715a).

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-06-30 - Referred To Second Reading [HB5742 Detail]

Download: Michigan-2009-HB5742-Introduced.html

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HOUSE BILL No. 5742

 

January 13, 2010, Introduced by Rep. LeBlanc and referred to the Committee on Appropriations.

 

     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 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 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 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.