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6-19-117. School bus safety equipment — Definition.
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6-19-117. School bus safety equipment — Definition.
(a) As used in this section, “school bus” means:
(1) A motor vehicle designed to carry ten (10) or more passengers that is:
(A) Owned by a public or a governmental agency or a private school and operated for the transportation of students to or from school or school-sponsored activities; or
(B) Privately owned and operated for compensation for the transportation of students to or from school or school-sponsored activities; and
(2) A motor vehicle designed to carry more than twenty-five (25) passengers is exempt from this section if the motor vehicle is:
(A) Owned by a public or a governmental agency or a private school and operated for the transportation of students to or from school-sponsored activities but not used to transport students on any scheduled school bus route; or
(B) Privately owned and operated for compensation under contract to a school district and used for the transportation of students to or from school-sponsored activities.
(b)(1) Any new school bus whose function involves the loading or discharging of students as passengers shall be equipped with a flashing white strobe light in order to provide greater visibility to drivers in approaching vehicles.
(2) The strobe light shall be in addition to those flasher lights required under § 27-51-1002.
(c) Any new school bus whose function involves the loading or discharging of students as passengers on a regular route shall be equipped with an electric, air, or hydraulic-operated crossing gate in order to prevent a student from crossing in front of the bus in such a way that the school bus driver is unlikely to see him or her.
(d) On and after July 1, 1997, all other school buses shall be retrofitted with a flashing white strobe light a
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 6-19-117
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6-19-117. School bus safety equipment — Definition.
(a) As used in this section, “school bus” means:
(1) A motor vehicle designed to carry ten (10) or more passengers that is:
(A) Owned by a public or a governmental agency or a private school and operated for the transportation of students to or from school or school-sponsored activities; or
(B) Privately owned and operated for compensation for the transportation of students to or from school or school-sponsored activities; and
(2) A motor vehicle designed to carry more than twenty-five (25) passengers is exempt from this section if the motor vehicle is:
(A) Owned by a public or a governmental agency or a private school and operated for the transportation of students to or from school-sponsored activities but not used to transport students on any scheduled school bus route; or
(B) Privately owned and operated for compensation under contract to a school district and used for the transportation of students to or from school-sponsored activities.
(b)(1) Any new school bus whose function involves the loading or discharging of students as passengers shall be equipped with a flashing white strobe light in order to provide greater visibility to drivers in approaching vehicles.
(2) The strobe light shall be in addition to those flasher lights required under § 27-51-1002.
(c) Any new school bus whose function involves the loading or discharging of students as passengers on a regular route shall be equipped with an electric, air, or hydraulic-operated crossing gate in order to prevent a student from crossing in front of the bus in such a way that the school bus driver is unlikely to see him or her.
(d) On and after July 1, 1997, all other school buses shall be retrofitted with a flashing white strobe light and an electric, air, or hydraulic-operated crossing gate for purposes as described in this section.
(e) No later than July 1 of each year, the superintendent of each local school district shall certify to the Division of Public School Academic Facilities and Transportation that the district is in compliance with the provisions of this section.
(f) The Director of the Division of Public School Academic Facilities and Transportation shall cause to be publicized the third week of October as School Bus Safety Week.
(g) If funding is provided as required in § 6-19-130(e), a school bus that is purchased new or leased and that is to be used in Arkansas on or after January 1, 2018, shall be equipped with a passenger restraint system as defined in § 6-19-130 in a number sufficient to allow each student who is being transported in the school bus to use a passenger restraint system.
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27-51-1002. Specifications for identification and safety devices.
(a)(1) All vehicles used for the transportation of pupils to or from any school shall have a sign on the front and on the rear of the vehicle showing the words “SCHOOL BUS”, and the words shall be plainly readable in letters not less than eight inches (8") in height.
(2) When a school bus is being operated upon a highway for purposes other than the actual transportation of children either to or from school, all markings thereon indicating “SCHOOL BUS” shall be covered or concealed.
(b) Every school bus shall be in the color officially designated by the State Board of Education.
(c)(1)(A) The board is vested with full authority and responsibility to prescribe by rule the number and location and other specifications for alternating red warning lights on school buses operated in this state.
(B) Alternating red warning lights shall be operating at all times when the buses are loading or unloading school children but at no other time.
(2) It shall be the duty of the operator of every school bus operated in this state to conduct an inspection before each trip begins to see that all identification and safety devices required by this section or required by rule of the board are displayed on the vehicle in the manner required, and it is unlawful for any person to operate a school bus in this state unless identification and safety devices are properly displayed and in proper working order.
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 27-51-1002
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6-19-130. School bus passenger restraint systems — Definitions.
(a) As used in this section, a “passenger restraint system” means:
(1) A type 2 seat belt assembly that is in compliance with Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard 209 and with Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard 210 as those standards were in effect on the date the school bus was manufactured; or
(2) A type 2 lap and shoulder restraint system and that is in compliance with Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard 222.
(b)(1) A school district shall require a student being transported in a school bus operated by or contracted for operation by the school district to wear a passenger restraint system if the school bus is required under § 6-19-117(g) to be equipped with a passenger restraint system for each passenger on the school bus.
(2) Except as provided in subsection (d) of this section, a student being transported in a school bus that is required to be equipped with passenger restraint systems shall use a passenger restraint system at all times while the school bus is in motion.
(c) A school district may implement a disciplinary policy to enforce the use of passenger restraint systems by students being transported in a school bus.
(d) This section does not apply:
(1)(A) To a passenger with a physically disabling condition or medical condition that prevents appropriate restraint in a passenger restraint system, if the condition is certified in writing by a licensed physician or licensed chiropractor.
(B) The licensed physician or licensed chiropractor providing the certification under subdivision (d)(1)(A) of this section shall state the nature of the condition and the reason the passenger restraint system is inappropriate; or
(2)(A) In the case of an emergency that may necessitate the
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 6-19-130
Stored review status: Historical 2020-11-06 source release; later amendments not reconciled; machine-extracted, not independently legally reviewed; source heading status: text_in_historical_source. The source passage cites 6-19-130. This identifies an authority to review, not proof of applicability.