§ 285.9 — Powers and duties of area boards

Iowa § 285.9

• Jurisdiction: Iowa
• Title VII: EDUCATION, HISTORY, AND CULTURE
• Ch. 285: STATE AID FOR TRANSPORTATION

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The powers and duties of the respective area education agency boards shall be to:
1. Enforce all laws and all rules and regulations of the department of education relating
to transportation.
2. Review and approve all transportation arrangements between districts in the agency
and in all districts in the agency not operating high schools. If such transportation
arrangements, designations, and contracts are not in conformity to law or established
uniform standards for the locating and operating of bus routes, the agency board shall, after
receiving all facts, make such alterations or changes as necessary to make the arrangements,
designations, and contracts conform to the legal and established requirements and shall
notify local board of such action.

3. Approve all bus routes outside the boundary of the district of the school operating
buses.
4. When a local board fails to make designations and other necessary arrangements for
transportation as required by law, the agency board shall, after due notice to the local board,
make necessary arrangements in conformity with law and established requirements. Notice
shall be given to the local board of the arrangements as made. The arrangements shall be
binding on the local board which shall pay the costs for service as arranged.

Legislative History

[C35, §4274-e1, -e2; C39, §4274.03, 4274.04; C46, §282.10, 282.11, 285.9; C50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §285.9]