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About ACA Transporting Children in Vans: Do Laws Prohibit This
for Camps In the Spring of 1998 there was much discussion and
concern around camps using vans to transport children. A
combination of incidents and press coverage made it seem to camp
directors that using large vans (12-21 passengers) was unsafe,
if not illegal, and that camps should use school buses to
transport children. In a thorough investigation, ACA discovered
that this was not necessarily the case, and shared that
information in a previous issue of CampLine (May 1998). Since
nearly three years have passed, ACA has done some follow up
research on the subject to keep everyone as updated as possible
on the current laws. The confusion started when a Dateline NBC
program (April 1998) understandably alarmed many parents and
camp directors. The Web site of MSNBC
(www.msnbc.com/news/154667.asp) added to the concern with
reports indicating "federal law prohibits the sale/lease of
large