NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1969 SESSION

CHAPTER 47

SENATE BILL 10

AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE USE OF SCHOOL BUSES AS NEEDED FOR INSTRUCTIONAL PROGRAMS AND TO TRANSPORT PUPILS WITH SPECIAL NEEDS.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1.  G.S. 115-183 is hereby amended by adding a new subsection (4.5) as follows:

"(4.5)   County or city boards of education, under such rules and regulations as they shall adopt, may permit the use and operation of school buses for the transportation of pupils and instructional personnel as the board deems necessary to serve the instructional programs of the schools. Included in the use permitted by this section is the transportation of children with special needs, such as mentally retarded children and children with physical defects, and children enrolled in programs that require transportation from the school grounds during the school day, such as special vocational or occupational programs. On any such trip, a city or county-owned school bus shall not be taken out of the State.

If state funds are inadequate to pay for the transportation approved by the local board of education, local funds may be used for these purposes. County or city boards of education shall determine that funds are available to such boards for the transportation of children to and from the school to which they are assigned for the entire school year before authorizing the use and operation of school buses for other services deemed necessary to serve the instructional program of the schools.

Sec. 2.  G.S. 115-183(5) is hereby amended by striking the first sentence therefrom.

Sec. 3.  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 4.  This Act shall be in full force and effect from July 1, 1969.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 7th day of March, 1969.