School bus body color

(a) Buses shall be National School Bus Yellow, in accordance with the 2005 national standard for school transportation, except that the background behind the word school bus may be retro-reflective yellow sheeting, the hood, excluding the portion over the tires on a tilt hood, shall be lusterless black, and the roof may be painted white extending down to a longitudinal continuous straight line along the roof–to-sidewall interface. The white painted area of a roof shall terminate at any point from the top of the drip rail to six (6) inches above the drip rail. The front and rear roof caps and any portion of the front and rear of the bus shall remain National School Bus Yellow on a bus with a white roof. (b) Bumpers shall be black. Trim on the exterior of the body shall be black. For purposes of this regulation, "trim" means: 1. All required lettering; 2. Emergency exit arrow; 3. Manufacturer's logo and stripe, with stripe not to exceed six (6) inches in width and logo to fit within a twelve inch by twelve-inch (12 inch x 12 inch) square; one logo per side; 4. Company logo (not to exceed one hundred (100) square inches in size); one logo per side only; 5. Rub rails, pilasters and service entrance doors, which may be either black or National School Bus Yellow; and 6. Mirror housings. (c) Up to three (3) alphanumeric characters no more than six inches (6 inches) in height may appear on one side of the front and/or rear bumper(s) within a horizontal span of no more than eighteen (18) inches along the bumper. Such characters shall be colored National School Bus Yellow.