Interpretation ID: aiam2309
Manager of Engineering Services
Truck Body and Equipment Association
Inc.
5530 Wisconsin Avenue
Suite 1220
Washington
D.C. 20015;
Dear Mr. Crampton: This responds to the Truck Body Equipment Association's May 7, 1976 question whether S5.2.3.2 of Standard No.217, *Bus Window Retention and Release*, requires that the engine starting system of a school bus not operate if an emergency exit other than an emergency door is locked. Section S5.2.3.2 applies to school buses manufactured on or after October 26, 1976.; Section S5.2.3.2 only specifies requirements for the relationship o the engine-starting system to the operation of emergency doors. Reference to any emergency exit' in the first sentence of the section is in error, as the correct reference to emergency door' in the second sentence of the section demonstrates. A correction of this error will be made in the text of the standard shortly.; Sincerely, Frank Berndt, Acting Chief Counsel