This text of New Mexico § 22-8-29 (Transportation distributions; reports; payments) is published on Counsel Stack Legal Research, covering New Mexico primary law. Counsel Stack provides free access to over 12 million legal documents including statutes, case law, regulations, and constitutions.
A. On the second reporting date and the third reporting date of each year, each local school board of a school district and governing body of a state-chartered charter school shall report to the state transportation director, upon forms furnished by the state transportation director, the following information concerning the school district's or state- chartered charter school's operation on each respective reporting date of the current year:
(1)the number and designation of school bus routes in operation in the school district;
(2)the number of miles traveled by each school bus on each school bus route, showing the route mileage in accordance with the type of road surface traveled;
(3)the number of students, including special education students, transported on each reporting date of the
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A. On the second reporting date and the third reporting date of each year, each local school board of a school district and governing body of a state-chartered charter school shall report to the state transportation director, upon forms furnished by the state transportation director, the following information concerning the school district's or state- chartered charter school's operation on each respective reporting date of the current year: (1) the number and designation of school bus routes in operation in the school district; (2) the number of miles traveled by each school bus on each school bus route, showing the route mileage in accordance with the type of road surface traveled; (3) the number of students, including special education students, transported on each reporting date of the current year and adjusted for special education students on December 1; (4) the projected number of students to be transported in the next school year; (5) the seating capacity, age and mileage of each bus used in the school district for student transportation; and (6) the number of total miles traveled for each school district's or state- chartered charter school's per capita feeder routes. B. Each local school board of a school district and governing body of a state- chartered charter school maintaining a school bus route shall make further reports to the state transportation director at other times specified by the state transportation director. C. The state transportation director shall certify to the secretary that the allocations from the transportation distributions to each school district and state-chartered charter school are based upon the transportation distribution formula established in the Public School Code [Chapter 22 NMSA 1978], calculated and distributed for the entire school year using an average of the amounts reported pursuant to Subsection A of this section on the second reporting date and third reporting date of the prior school year, and are subject to audit and verification; provided that for fiscal years 2022 and 2023, the state transportation director shall use an average of the amounts reported pursuant to Subsection A of this section on the second and third reporting dates of fiscal year 2020. D. The department shall make periodic installment payments to school districts and state-chartered charter schools during the school year from the transportation distributions, based upon the allocations certified by the state transportation director.