Act No. 130

Public Acts of 2001

Approved by the Governor

October 11, 2001

Filed with the Secretary of State

October 15, 2001

EFFECTIVE DATE: October 15, 2001

STATE OF MICHIGAN

91ST LEGISLATURE

REGULAR SESSION OF 2001

Introduced by Reps. Cameron Brown, Vander Roest, Mead, Tabor, Vear, Meyer, Van Woerkom, Gilbert, Hager, Kowall, Newell, Middaugh, Ehardt, Julian, Shackleton, Pumford, Jelinek, Bradstreet, DeVuyst, Gosselin and Caul

ENROLLED HOUSE BILL No. 4879

AN ACT to amend 1990 PA 187, entitled ''An act to regulate the equipment, maintenance, operation, and use of school buses and pupil transportation vehicles; to prescribe the qualifications of school bus and pupil transportation vehicle drivers; to prescribe the powers and duties of certain state and local governmental agencies; to create an advisory committee and to prescribe its powers and duties; and to prescribe remedies and penalties,'' by amending section 33 (MCL 257.1833).

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

Sec. 33. (1) A school bus shall be painted as follows:

(a) The body, cowl, hood, and fenders shall be national school bus chrome yellow.

(b) The bumper, body trim, wheels, and lettering shall be black. The wheel rims shall be gray, black, or natural, as provided by the manufacturer.

(c) The wheel covers, if painted, shall be black.

(d) The grill, if not chrome, shall be national school bus chrome yellow.

(e) The mirrors, if painted, shall be black or yellow.

(f) The name of the school district shall be painted in black on the back, front, and sides of the bus.

(2) Except for a bus leased seasonally to transport agricultural workers to and from a field for agricultural operations, a bus, other than a school bus, shall not be painted, in whole or in part, in the colors and design specified in subsection (1).

This act is ordered to take immediate effect.

Clerk of the House of Representatives.

Secretary of the Senate.

Approved

Governor.