§ 20-27-8-1 — School bus drivers and monitors; standards

(a) An individual may not drive a school bus
for the transportation of students or be employed as a school bus
monitor unless the individual satisfies the following requirements:
(1) Is of good moral character.
(2) Does not use intoxicating liquor during school hours.
(3) Does not use intoxicating liquor to excess at any time.
(4) Is not addicted to any narcotic drug.
(5) Is at least:
(A) twenty-one (21) years of age for driving a school bus; or
(B) eighteen (18) years of age for employment as a school bus
monitor.
(6) In the case of a school bus driver, holds a valid public
passenger chauffeur's license or commercial driver's license
issued by the state or any other state.
(7) Possesses the following required physical characteristics:
(A) Sufficient physical ability to be a school bus driver, as
determined by the committee.
(B) The full normal use of both hands, both arms, both feet,
both legs, both eyes, and both ears.
(C) Freedom from any communicable disease that:
(i) may be transmitted through airborne or droplet means; or
(ii) requires isolation of the infected person under 410 IAC
1-2.3.
(D) Freedom from any mental, nervous, organic, or functional
disease that might impair the person's ability to properly operate
a school bus.
(E) This clause does not apply to a school bus monitor. Visual
acuity, with or without glasses, equal to the vision requirements
under 49 CFR 391.41 and a field of vision with one hundred
fifty (150) degree minimum and with depth perception of at
least eighty percent (80%) or forty-eight (48) seconds of arc or
less angle of stereopsis.
(b) This subsection applies to a school bus monitor.
Notwithstanding subsection (a)(5)(B), a school corporation or school
bus driver may not employ an individual who is less than twenty-one
(21) years of age as a school bus monitor unless the school corporation
or school bus driver does not receive a sufficient number of qualified
applicants for employment as a school bus monitor who are at least
twenty-one (21) years of age. A school corporation or school bus driver
shall maintain a record of applicants, their ages, and their qualifications
to show compliance with this subsection.
[Pre-2005 Elementary and Secondary Education
Recodification Citation: 20-9.1-3-1.]

Legislative History

As added by P.L.1-2005, SEC.11. Amended by P.L.219-2015, SEC.3; P.L.127-2016, SEC.19; P.L.167-2018, SEC.3; P.L.168-2022, SEC.8.