Port Pirie Regional Council - Community Bus

Conditions of Use:

• The nominated driver must be 21yrs or older and is required to hold a FULL Class C car license to drive the bus.

• The responsibility of the community bus is transferred to the nominated driver when the hire agreement form is completed, and the keys are collected.

• Please note, for safety reasons the bus has a maximum occupancy of 12 including the driver and can only cater for the safe storage of up to 2 walking frames.

• The nominated driver must not have consumed alcohol or drugs. It is an offence for the driver of the community bus to have any alcohol or drugs in their system whilst driving the bus. The driver’s blood alcohol / drug reading must be zero (0) / - negative at all times.

• The nominated driver must be medically fit to perform the duties necessary to drive/control the Community Bus.

• The nominated driver must familiarise themselves with the operations of the Community Bus prior to taking the Bus out with passengers on board.

• All Passengers must wear seatbelts and remain seated whilst travelling on the bus at all times and comply with any reasonable request of the driver.

• The nominated driver is responsible for the behaviour of passengers, any behaviour that is disorderly or unlawful is not permitted.

• The hirer will be responsible for costs associated with malicious and wilful damage by passengers during the period of hire. The hirer will be responsible for all damage repair costs attributed to negligence on the part of the hirer.

• Child seats requiring anchoring points are not permitted, however booster seats utilising the seatbelts can be used.

• Whilst on the Bus, Children must be accompanied by a responsible adult at all times, their safety is the responsibility of the Parents/Guardians.

• No parcels, goods or luggage (other than hand luggage) are to be carried in the passenger seating spaces.

• The bus must be refueled before returning it to the shed - failure to do this may impact any future hire requests. (info on how to do this is located in the documents folder on the bus).

• At completion of hire the Bus must be cleaned & all rubbish removed.

Registered Guide Dogs / Companion/Service Dogs are permitted on the bus. No other animals are permitted on the bus.

Strictly: NO smoking/vaping, NO consumption of alcohol, NO eating, drinking allowed on the bus.

If a Catastrophic Fire Danger Day is forecast in the Mid North/Flinders Ranges and/or in any fire district of the intended itinerary (according to the Bureau of Meteorology - BOM) (bom.gov.au) the Hire/Charter will be rescheduled or cancelled prior to, or on the day of travel.

On Extreme/Severe Fire Danger Days the nominated driver is responsible for the safety and wellbeing of their passengers, and they are required to monitor ''Alert SA" and have a bushfire management plan in place prior to use of the Community Bus.

Indemnity:

The hirer shall be responsible for the payment of any excess applicable to any insurance claim arising from the hire of the bus (Hirer will be subject to $2,000 excess where the vehicle is being used for the conveyance of passengers for hire, fare or reward with the exception of Community Transport (Health & Identified Community Groups) purposes which is $500);

Removal of any equipment from the vehicle (such as first aid kit, extinguishers etc.) will incur a charge, being that cost to replace said item.