§ 9-20-8-1 — Buses in excess of eight feet wide; operation; limitations

Indiana § 9-20-8-1

• Jurisdiction: Indiana
• Title 9: MOTOR VEHICLES
• Art. 20: SIZE AND WEIGHT REGULATION
• Ch. 8: Special Restrictions Concerning Buses and School Buses

Text

(a) This section applies to a motor vehicle
designed and used to carry more than seven (7) persons, operated
either:
(1) wholly within the boundaries of cities and towns; or
(2) between contiguous cities and towns;
located in counties having a population of at least one hundred sixty
thousand (160,000).
(b) If federal statutes and regulations permit the operation of
passenger buses of widths greater than eight (8) feet on an interstate
highway, the Indiana department of transportation may, by adopting
rules consistent with the federal statute or regulation, permit the
operation of passenger buses of a total outside width, exclusive of
safety equipment, of not more than eight (8) feet, six (6) inches, on a
highway.
[Pre-1991 Recodification Citation: 9-8-2-1.]

Legislative History

As added by P.L.2-1991, SEC.8.