{"data":{"id":"us-ca/veh-27316.5","jurisdiction":"us-ca","citation":"VEH § 27316.5","heading":"","body":"(a) Unless specifically prohibited by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, all type 2 school pupil activity buses, manufactured on or after July 1, 2004, purchased or leased for use in California shall be equipped at all designated seating positions with a combination pelvic and upper torso passenger restraint system.\n(b) For purposes of this section, a “passenger restraint system” is either of the following:\n(1) A restraint system that is in compliance with Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard 209, for a type 2 seatbelt assembly, and with Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard 210, as those standards were in effect on the date that the school pupil activity bus was manufactured.\n(2) A restraint system certified by the school pupil activity bus manufacturer that is in compliance with Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard 222 and incorporates a type 2 lap-shoulder restraint system.\n(c) No person, school district, or organization, with respect to a type 2 school pupil activity bus equipped with passenger restraint systems pursuant to this section, may be charged for a violation of this code or any regulation adopted thereunder requiring a passenger to use a passenger restraint system, if a passenger on the school pupil activity bus fails to use or improperly uses the passenger restraint system.","path":["Vehicle Code - VEH","DIVISION 12. EQUIPMENT OF VEHICLES [24000. - 28246.]","CHAPTER 5. Other Equipment [27000. - 28160.]","ARTICLE 3. Safety Belts and Inflatable Restraint Systems [27302. - 27319.]"],"source_url":"https://downloads.leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/pubinfo_2025.zip","current_through":"2026-09-13","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T05:56:33Z","sha256":"57a05404bd5fbb2d5566df8cdadf35e4de2b28d0003f1f19a77acd8b07951020","source_id":"us-ca","stale":false,"prev":"us-ca/veh-27316","next":"us-ca/veh-27317"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}