HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 3014        FILED ON: 1/14/2009

HOUSE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 3286

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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In the Year Two Thousand Nine

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An Act relative to buses..

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.  Section 4C of chapter 89 of the General Laws, as appearing in the 1998 Official Edition, is hereby amended by striking out, in line 2, the word “except” and inserting in place thereof the following word:-and.

SECTION 2.  Said section 4C of said chapter 89, as so appearing, is hereby further amended by adding the following paragraph:-

For purposes of this section, bus shall be defined as any motor vehicle operated upon a public way in any city or town for the carriage of the passengers for hire in such a manner as to afford a means of transportation similar to that afforded by a railway company by indiscriminately receiving and discharging passengers along the route on which the vehicle is operated or may be running, or for transporting passengers for hire as a business between fixed and regular termini, or transporting passengers for hire under a charter license, special service or school service permit issued by the department.