§ 17:164 — Regulations relating to construction, design, equipment, and operation of school buses

§164. Regulations relating to construction, design, equipment, and operation of school buses
The State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education, hereafter referred to in this
Section as the "state board", shall establish and adopt regulations for the construction, design,
equipment, and operation of school buses used in transportation of students to and from
school. Such regulations shall be provided to encourage competition and in no event shall
be devised, worded, or construed so as to restrict competition among manufacturers of school
bus bodies, chassis, or other equipment or to benefit or favor in any way a particular
manufacturer or group of manufacturers of such bus bodies, chassis, or other equipment,
including by reference to detail of design specific to a particular manufacturer or group of
manufacturers. A school bus body, chassis, or equipment shall meet the latest revised
minimum standards for school buses adopted and recommended by the National Congress
on School Transportation, sponsored by the National Association of State Directors of Pupil
Transportation Services, the National Association for Pupil Transportation, the National
School Transportation Association, the School Transportation section of the National Safety
Council, and the School Bus Manufacturers Technical Council, the regulations adopted
pursuant to this Section, and all statutory requirements for the construction, design,
equipment, and operation of school buses. This Section shall not apply to feeder buses in
operation in this state.

Legislative History

Added by Acts 1952, No. 399, §1. Amended by Acts 1956, No. 168, §1; Acts 2019, No. 377, §1.