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Section 220
MOTOR VEHICLE SAFETY ACT
Motor Vehicle Safety Regulations
Standard 220
Rollover Protection
220. (1) This section applies only to school buses.
(2) Subject to subsection (3), when a force equal to 1 1/2 times the unloaded vehicle
weight is applied to the roof of the vehicle's body structure through a force application
plate as specified in Motor Vehicle Safety Test Methods, section 220, approved July 19,
1976,
(a) the downward vertical movement at any point on the application plate shall not
exceed 130 mm (5 1/8 inches); and
(b) every exit required by section 217 of this Schedule, except roof emergency exits,
shall meet the emergency exit opening requirement of that section with the force applied
and after the force has been released.
(3) An exit required by section 217 of this Schedule, other than a roof emergency exit,
that has met the emergency exit opening requirement of that section with the force
described in subsection (2) applied in the manner described therein need not meet the
emergency exit opening requirement after the force has been released.
Established by the CONSOLIDATED REGULATIONS OF
CANADA, 1978.
amended by
SOR/79-940 6 December, 1979 pursuant to sections 4 and 7 of the Motor Vehicle Safety
Act
Section 218 is renumbered as section 220.
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