California Education Code

§ 39834

EDC § 39834 Effective Jan 1, 2000Div. 3 · Title 2 · Part 23.5 · Ch. 1 · Art. 3

Statute text

(a)Except as provided in subdivision (b), any officer, agent, or employee of a school district, office of the county superintendent of schools, or joint powers agency, or any other person, knowingly operating, or permitting or directing the operation of a schoolbus, when it is loaded with schoolchildren in excess of the limits of its seating capacity, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

(b)The governing board of any school district, office of the county superintendent of schools, or joint powers agency may adopt a district policy establishing plans for the evacuation of pupils in case of any emergency that may provide, where necessary, for the loading of schoolchildren on a schoolbus in excess of the limits of its seating capacity.

(c)As used in this section, “emergency” means a natural disaster or hazard that requires pupils to be moved immediately in order to ensure their safety.

Legislative history

Added by Stats. 1999, Ch. 646, Sec. 14. Effective January 1, 2000.