SCHOOL BUS. Every bus designed for carrying more than nine passengers that is owned by a public, private, or governmental agency or institution of learning and operated for the transportation of children to or from school session or school function, or owned by a private person and operated for compensation for the transportation of children to or from a school session or school function; provided SCHOOL BUS does not include a bus operated by a municipally owned transportation system, a mass transit company operating exclusively within the territorial limits of municipal corporation or within such limits and the territorial limits of municipal corporations immediately contiguous to such municipal corporation, nor a common passenger carrier certified by the Public Utilities Commission unless such bus is devoted exclusively to the transportation of children to and from a school session or a school function, and SCHOOL BUS does not include a van or bus used by a licensed child day-care center or type A family day-care home to transport children from the child day-care center or type A family day-care home to a school if the van or bus does not have more than 15 children in the van or bus at any time.
(R.C. § 4511.01(F)) (Ord. 3033, passed 8-10-76)