Chapter XIX. Carriage of Persons
150. Category C vehicles (goods vehicles) may carry up to eight passengers; and when carrying more people, the driver must also have a driving licence authorizing them to drive vehicles of categories "D" or "DE" or subcategories "D1" or "D1E".
151. Before departure, the driver of a goods vehicle must instruct the passengers on the procedure for boarding, taking their places in the cargo bed, and alighting, as well as on not leaving their seat during movement. The driver may move off only after ensuring that all conditions for the safe carriage of passengers have been met.
152. In the cargo bed of a goods vehicle, as well as in buses traveling on intercity or tourist routes or transporting organized groups of children, the number of persons must not exceed the number of equipped seats.
153. Persons may be carried in the cargo bed of a goods vehicle with sideboards is permitted if it is equipped with benches fixed at no less than 0.3 m below the upper edge of the side and 0.3—0.5 m above the floor. Benches fixed at the rear or along the sides must have firm backrests.
154. In the body of a goods vehicle with sideboards that is not equipped for the transportation of persons, during movement only persons accompanying the cargo or travelling to collect it are permitted to be present—on condition that they are provided with seats installed in accordance with the specifications set out in point 153 of the Rules.
155. Organized groups of children must be transported by a bus displaying “Transportation of children” identification signs, in accordance with these Rules and the rules approved by the Government of the Republic of Armenia for organizing such transportation.
156. On vehicles equipped with the “Transportation of children” identification sign, the hazard warning lights must be switched on while children are boarding or alighting. When approaching such vehicles, drivers must reduce speed, and if necessary stop—to allow the children to cross the carriageway safely and without obstruction.
157. The driver must keep the doors closed until the vehicle has come to a complete stop; only then may passengers be allowed to board or alight, and the vehicle may move off only after the doors have been closed.
158. The transportation of persons is prohibited:
outside the cabin of a motor vehicle (except for the cases of transporting persons in the body of a cargo motor vehicle with a flatbed body with sideboards and in a van body), a tractor or other self-propelled machines; in a cargo trailer; in a caravan trailer; in the body of a cargo motor vehicle of the motorcycle category; and outside the seats provided for by the construction of a motorcycle;
in numbers exceeding those provided for by the technical specifications of the vehicle.
159. Children under seven years of age must be carried in a passenger car or in the cab of a goods vehicle fitted with seat belts, or with seat belts and an ISOFIX child-restraint system, using a child-restraint system or device appropriate to the child’s weight and height.