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| Written by Janna Smeltzer |
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The Minnesota Association for Pupil Transportation would like to notify member that in the Winter 2009 MAPT newsletter, the wrong State law for School Bus Post Crash Inspections was inadvertently published.
The law published was Minnesota Statute 169.783, which is for commercial vehicles such as trucking. The correct School Bus Post Crash Inspections law is Minnesota Statute 169.4511, which is listed below. 169.4511 SCHOOL BUS ACCIDENT AND SUBSEQUENT OPERATION (1) a fatality; Subd. 2.Waiver.A state trooper or designee of the Minnesota State Patrol called to the scene of an accident by a responding peace officer under subdivision 1 may waive the inspection requirement of subdivision 1 if the trooper or State Patrol designee determines that a postcrash inspection is not needed or cannot be accomplished without unreasonable delay. The trooper or State Patrol designee granting a waiver must provide to the driver of the school bus for which the waiver is granted a written statement that the inspection has been waived. The written statement must include the incident report number assigned to the accident by the State Patrol. |



