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Section 7A of chapter 90 of the General Laws, as appearing in the 2022 Official Edition, is hereby amended by inserting after the sixth paragraph the following paragraph:- Prior to the completion of an inspection of a school bus or other school transport vehicle inspected pursuant to the preceding paragraph, the owner of such vehicle shall submit to the registrar: (i) any successful bid to provide transportation to a school district in the commonwealth; (ii) all non-successful bids to provide transportation to a school district in the commonwealth submitted in the previous school year; (iii) the winning bids from all school transportation bids in which the company’s vehicle was not successful in the previous school year; and (iv) an affidavit attesting to the truth and accuracy of such information. If a company fails to provide the information required by this paragraph, the company’s school transportation vehicle shall fail the inspection. If the unsuccessful bids are more than 2 per cent below the winning bid, a vehicle shall fail inspection. If the company only wins 1 school bus bid a year for 5 successive years, a vehicle shall fail inspection.
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