Ohio Admin. Code 3301-83-05 - Administration
Responsibility for administration of pupil transportation operation and safety rules
(A) The
state agencies responsible for pupil transportation may assist in pupil
transportation operation and safety by providing:
(1) Leadership;
(2) Management;
(3) Safety programs;
(4) Training programs.
(B) The state agencies responsible for pupil
transportation shall assist in pupil transportation operation and safety by
providing:
(1) Disbursement of state
funding;
(2) Standards for school
bus construction;
(3) Rules for
pupil transportation operations;
(4) Forms and reports.
(C) All school bus owners may designate a
transportation director
Director/supervisor to administer the
transportation program and shall be
responsible for the management and supervision of:
(1) Personnel;
(2) Safety;
(3) Training;
(4) Operations;
(5) Maintenance.
(D)
The Ohio
department of education shall assist city, exempted, village and local school
districts by performing official timings to determine whether pupils attending
non-public or community schools are eligible for transportation in accordance
with section 3327.01 of the Revised Code. In
performing the timings, the department shall use the procedures set forth in
its "Transportation Services for Chartered Nonpublic and Community School
Students Handbook," located on the department's website, including but not
limited to:
(1)
Eligibility shall be determined by measuring the most direct
route, which may include the interstate, by school bus from the public-school
building to which the pupils would be assigned if attending the public school
designated by the district of residence to the school bus loading area nearest
and opposite the entrance door used by pupils transported at the attending
non-public or community school;
(2)
Timings shall be
conducted in a school bus, when both schools are in session, during the regular
attendance times that the bus would travel to the school, and the bus should
arrive at the building entrance or drop off location at the attending school at
a reasonable time, based on the attending school's bell schedule;
and
(3)
Timings conducted by a department representative are
final. A second timing will not be conducted unless it can be demonstrated that
the conditions pertaining to the original timing have substantially changed and
the department approves it. The department's determination regarding a second
timing is final.
Notes
Promulgated Under: 119.03
Statutory Authority: 3301.07, 4511.76
Rule Amplifies: 4511.76
Prior Effective Dates: 10/22/1984, 07/01/1991, 10/05/1998
State regulations are updated quarterly; we currently have two versions available. Below is a comparison between our most recent version and the prior quarterly release. More comparison features will be added as we have more versions to compare.
No prior version found.