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Section 182232.1. Paint aud lettering on school bus. · All motor vehicles, except con~ercial~buse§, station ~agons; automobll.es or trucks, transporting pupils to and from~ ~public~,,, priVate, or parochial schools shall be painted y,e!low ~th the words School Bus, Stop, State Law" on front and rear'in letters ~at least Six inches high except that the wo.r?s "School Bus,, On ~he front may be in leb~ers at least four inches high.if space %s timited,~ and~shalI be equipped with warning devices pr.escribed ~n ~18-233. Only schoo~ buSes~ as defined in ~18-1 may b.e.palnted yellow, identified ~ words above and ~quipped with the specified warning devices.'' ~A ve~.c~e which merely transports pupils, residents at a school, from one point toI an6ther ~ithout inter- mittent stops for the purpose of picking up or discharginE pupils, need not comply with the requirements of this section. Section 18-235. Mirrors. (a) No person sh~.l operate a motor vehicle upon a high~y Of this city which is not equipped with ~ .mirror so located as to reflect to the operator a view of the highway for a distance of hot Less than two hundred feet ~o the rear of such vehicle. (b) No motor vehicle registered in this State designed mud licensed pr~arily for passenger vehicular transportation on the public highways mum manufactured for the year nineteen hundred sixty-nine or for subsequent years shall be operated on the highways of this city unless equipped with at least one outside and at least one inside rear view mirror~ meeting the requirements of subsection (a~ hereof. Section 18-243. Cleats, etc., on tires; chains; tires with studs. No tire on a vehicle moved on a highway shalI have on its per- iphery any block, stud, flange, cleat or spike or any other protuberance of any material other than rubber which projects beyond the tread of the traction surface of the tire, except that it shall be permissible to use farm machinery having protuberances which~dll not injure the highway and to use tire chains of reasonable proportions when required for safety because of snow, ice or other conditions tending to cause a vehicle to slide or skid. It shall also be permissible to use upon anyvehicle, whose gross weight does not exceed ten thousand pounds, tires with studs which project not .more than one-sixteenth of an inch beyond the tread of the traction surface of the tire when compressed at which cover not more than three percent of the . traction surface of the tire. The use of S~ch studdedtiresshall be permissible until April 15, 1968, from October 15, 1968 to April 15, 1969 and from October 15, 1969 to April 15, 1970. -l?-