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California Vehicle Code

§ 545

VEH § 545 Effective Jan 1, 2019Div. 1

Statute text

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(a)A “schoolbus” is a motor vehicle designed, used, or maintained for the transportation of any school pupil at or below the 12th grade level to or from a public or private school or to or from public or private school activities, except the following:
(1)A motor vehicle of any type carrying only members of the household of the owner of the vehicle.
(2)A motortruck transporting pupils who are seated only in the passenger compartment, or a passenger vehicle designed for and carrying not more than 10 persons, including the driver, unless the vehicle or truck is transporting two or more disabled pupils confined to wheelchairs.
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Legislative history

Amended by Stats. 2018, Ch. 92, Sec. 208. (SB 1289) Effective January 1, 2019.

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