CHAPTER 8. SPECIAL RESTRICTIONS CONCERNING BUSES AND SCHOOL BUSES
IC 9-20-8
Chapter 8. Special Restrictions Concerning Buses and School
Buses
IC 9-20-8-1
Buses in excess of eight feet wide; operation; limitations
Sec. 1. (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.
As added by P.L.2-1991, SEC.8.
IC 9-20-8-2
Maximum length limitations
Sec. 2. The maximum length limitations for buses are as follows:
(1) For an articulating bus used for public transportation
purposes, sixty-five (65) feet.
(2) For a conventional school bus, forty-two (42) feet.
(3) For a transit school bus, forty-two (42) feet.
(4) For all others, forty-five (45) feet.
As added by P.L.2-1991, SEC.8. Amended by P.L.122-1993, SEC.5;
P.L.110-1995, SEC.32; P.L.114-2007, SEC.1.