C-24 - Highway Code

Section 48 Disposition versions

1987-06-29

48. (Replaced).

R. S. 1964, c. 231, s. 44; 1984, c. 47, s. 213; 1986, c. 91, s. 674.

1985-04-01

48. (1)  When a motor vehicle overtakes or meets an autobus used in transporting school children, duly identified as such, which is stationary to take on or discharge school children, the driver of such vehicle shall not pass or drive beyond such autobus until it is again put in motion; nor shall he do so until the children have boarded the autobus, or have left it and reached the side of the road.

Such autobus must be equipped with signals by means of which the person in charge shall give warning as long as the children are not in safety.

(2)  Any autobus used for such purpose shall:

(1)  have a seating capacity for at least ten school children and be painted yellow, if used exclusively for the conveyance of school children;

(2)  be equipped with:

(a)  at least two doors, one at the front and the other at the rear or side, or one door at the front and windows specially equipped to enable the vehicle to be quickly evacuated in case of accident;

(b)  a chemical fire-extinguisher of a type approved by the Department;

(c)  a light of at least 2 cd to light the interior at night;

(d)  a notice placed in front and another at the rear, in letters at least 20 cm high, bearing the words “school bus” or “écoliers”; the letters of such notices shall be black on a white or yellow background and shall be clearly legible;

(e)  two intermittent amber lights in front, placed as near as possible to the top of the vehicle with a space between them;

(f)  two intermittent red lights in the rear, placed as near as possible to the top of the vehicle with a space between them.

Such lights must be visible by day and at night, at a distance of 150 m and shall not be put in operation by the driver except when school children are boarding or leaving the vehicle.

When the autobus is not conveying school children, the notices mentioned in paragraph d shall be removed or covered.

R. S. 1964, c. 231, s. 44; 1984, c. 47, s. 213.

1977-12-31

48. (1)  When a motor vehicle overtakes or meets an autobus used in transporting school children, duly identified as such, which is stationary to take on or discharge school children, the driver of such vehicle shall not pass or drive beyond such autobus until it is again put in motion; nor shall he do so until the children have boarded the autobus, or have left it and reached the side of the road.

Such autobus must be equipped with signals by means of which the person in charge shall give warning as long as the children are not in safety.

(2)  Any autobus used for such purpose shall:

(1)  have a seating capacity for at least ten school children and be painted yellow, if used exclusively for the conveyance of school children;

(2)  be equipped with:

(a)  at least two doors, one at the front and the other at the rear or side, or one door at the front and windows specially equipped to enable the vehicle to be quickly evacuated in case of accident;

(b)  a chemical fire-extinguisher of a type approved by the Department;

(c)  a light of at least two candle-power to light the interior at night;

(d)  a notice placed in front and another at the rear, in letters at least eight inches high, bearing the words “school bus” or “écoliers”; the letters of such notices shall be black on a white or yellow background and shall be clearly legible;

(e)  two intermittent amber lights in front, placed as near as possible to the top of the vehicle with a space between them;

(f)  two intermittent red lights in the rear, placed as near as possible to the top of the vehicle with a space between them.

Such lights must be visible by day and at night, at a distance of five hundred feet and shall not be put in operation by the driver except when school children are boarding or leaving the vehicle.

When the autobus is not conveying school children, the notices mentioned in paragraph d shall be removed or covered.

R. S. 1964, c. 231, s. 44.