By Representative Evangelidis of Holden and Senator Antonioni, joint petition (accompanied by bill, 3467) of Lewis G. Evangelidis and others relative to excluding certain smaller vehicles from the definition of school buses. Transportation.

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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PETITION OF:

Lewis G. Evangelidis

Robert A. Antonioni

Stephen M. Brewer

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In the Year Two Thousand and Seven.

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An Act Relative to School Buses at Train Tracks.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

Section 1 of Chapter 90, as appearing in the 2004 Official Edition of the General Laws, is hereby amended by striking, in line 245, after the words “fifty-nine A,” the following words: or a motor vehicle having permanent seating accommodations for and carrying not more than eight passengers in addition to the operator, or a motor vehicle used to transport vocational students participating in a work project to and from a work site and having permanent seating accommodations for not more than fourteen persons in addition to the operator.