RELATES TO:
KRS
156.160,
157.370,
189.540
NECESSITY, FUNCTION, AND CONFORMITY:
KRS
156.160 and
189.540
require the Kentucky Board of Education to promulgate administrative
regulations relating to the physical welfare and safety of public school
children, the transportation of children to and from school, and the operation
of school buses.
KRS
157.370 establishes the method of calculating
transportation costs for the state public school funding program. This
administrative regulation establishes guidelines and procedures whereby the
Department of Education may offer direct assistance to the school districts in
these areas: service to the pupils, school bus safety, and economy of
operation.
Section 1. The Department of
Education may make safety inspections of school buses and special type vehicles
either owned by the board or contracted to the board being used to transport
pupils to and from school, held in reserve as substitutes for this purpose, or
proposed for this purpose. If a school bus or special type vehicle is found to
be in an unsafe condition, the department shall prohibit further use for the
transportation of pupils until the conditions causing it to be unsafe have been
corrected.
Section 2. The
Department of Education may make inspections of bus driver training records. If
a school bus driver training record is found to be out of compliance, the
department may decertify a driver whose training records are out of compliance
until proper corrections are made.
Section
3. All vehicles used for the transportation of pupils shall meet
the minimum safety standards for Kentucky school buses of the same model year
except as provided in
702 KAR
5:060, Section 6(2), or
702
KAR 5:130, Sections 1 and 2.
Section 4. The Department of Education may
make a district pupil transportation system survey or audit in any school
district providing transportation for its pupils, or that is planning to
provide transportation for its pupils.
Section
5. The Department of Education may require the superintendent of a
school district to prepare or cause to be prepared: pupil transportation maps,
bus route descriptions, and reports necessary for calculating the district's
entitlement under the Support Education Excellence in Kentucky
Program.
Section 6. The Department
of Education shall be responsible for the training and approval of state school
bus inspectors in accordance with the requirements established in
702 KAR
5:030.