CHAPTER 770

An Act to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered
46.1-287.1 relating to equipment required on certain vehicles trans-
porting children.

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Approved April 5, 1968

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia :

1. That the Code of Virginia be amended by adding a section numbered
46.1-287.1 as follows: ,

§ 46.1-287.1. Any private individual, corporation or civic, charitable
or eleemosynary organization, for the purpose of transporting children
to or from school, camp or any other place during any part of the year, may
contract to hire motor vehicles identified as regular school buses, having a
seating capacity of more than fifteen persons, which are painted yellow,
and if such motor vehicles are used for such purpose they shall be equipped
and operated in the same manner as are regular school buses pursuant to
the provisions of Chapter 4 of this title relating thereto.