ACCEPTANCE OF LEGISLATION / CHAPTER 399 OF THE ACTS OF 2024

To see if the Town will vote to accept the provisions of Chapter 399 of the Acts of 2024, or any other applicable laws, to permit the installation, operation, and maintenance of school bus violation detection monitoring systems on school buses; or take any action related thereto.

Inserted at the request of the School Committee

VOTE: Favorable Vote (5-0)

COMMENT: The Board voted to recommend favorable action on this Article following a presentation by the chair of the School Committee. If the Article is adopted, the Town would accept provisions of new state legislation permitting the Town to install a school bus violation detection monitoring system on buses ridden by the Town’s students. Such a system, by recording motor vehicles that overtake or fail to stop for a school bus when required by law to do so, would detect moving violations committed by motor vehicle operators. The Board supports the student safety goals articulated by the School Committee in requesting this action.

That the Town of Arlington does hereby accept General Laws Chapter 40, Section 71, enabling the Town to install, operate and maintain school bus violation detection monitoring systems on school buses to enforce violations pursuant to Sections 14 and 14C of the Massachusetts General Law Chapter 90. Any system put in shall be limited to monitoring and detecting violations of motor vehicle operators who fail to stop for a school bus. 

Select Board Report

Fact Sheet, Paul Schlichtman, Precinct 9
Text of Legislation, Paul Schlichtman, Precinct 9