§ 372a. Local transit public transportation service
(a) The annual registration fee for any motor bus used in local transit or public transportation service shall be $45.00, except for those vehicles owned by a municipality for such service that are subject to the provisions of section 376 of this title. In the event a bus registered for local transit or public transportation service is thereafter registered for general use during the same registration year, such fee shall be applied towards the fee for general registration.
(b) For the purposes of this section, a public transportation service bus is a bus used by a nonprofit public transit system as defined in 24 V.S.A. § 5088(3), and a local transit bus is a motor bus used entirely within or not more than 10 miles beyond the boundaries of a city or town. (Amended 1989, No. 51, § 24; 2001, No. 102 (Adj. Sess.), § 14, eff. May 15, 2002; 2009, No. 50, § 75.)