Veh. Code, § 233 · Division 1. WORDS AND PHRASES DEFINED
Veh. Code, § 233
Text — As published in the Legislative Counsel's database, tables dated October 18, 2026 (pubinfo_2025.zip)
(a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), a “bus” is any vehicle, including a trailer bus, designed, used, or maintained for carrying more than 15 persons including the driver.
(b) A vehicle designed, used, or maintained for carrying more than 10 persons, including the driver, which is used to transport persons for compensation or profit, or is used by any nonprofit organization or group, is also a bus.
(c) This section does not alter the definition of a schoolbus, school pupil activity bus, general public paratransit vehicle, farm labor vehicle, or youth bus.
(d) A vanpool vehicle is not a bus.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Amended by Stats. 1994, Ch. 675, Sec. 1. Effective January 1, 1995.
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