CHAPTER 1. Transportation Services [39800. - 39882.]
Chapter 1 added by Stats. 1999, Ch. 646, Sec. 14.
§§ 39800–39882 · 43 sections
ARTICLE 1. General Provisions §§ 39800–39809.5 · 14 sections
- § 39800 (a) The governing board of any school district may provide for the transportation of pupils to and from school whenever in the judgment of the board the…
- § 39800.1 (a) As a condition of receiving apportionments under Section 41850.1, a local educational agency shall develop a plan describing the transportation services it…
- § 39800.5 (a) Any school district and any owner or operator of a private school that provides transportation for pupils that owns, leases, or otherwise has possession or…
- § 39801 The governing board of any school district may contract with the county superintendent of schools to provide necessary transportation services. The county…
- § 39801.5 (a) The governing board of any school district may contract for the transportation of matriculated or enrolled adults, or provide transportation to adults in…
- § 39802 In order to procure the service at the lowest possible figure consistent with proper and satisfactory service, the governing board shall, whenever an…
- § 39803 (a) If a continuing contract for the furnishing of transportation of pupils in school districts to and from school is made it shall be made for a term not to…
- § 39803.5 (a) Notwithstanding Section 39803 or any other law, this section shall apply to the furnishing of transportation of pupils in local educational agencies to and…
- § 39805 In bidding on contracts to be made pursuant to Section 39803, bidders may include in their bids abstractions of their quotations indicating the pricing…
- § 39806 In lieu of providing in whole or in part for the transportation of a pupil attending the schools of a district, the governing board may pay to the parents or…
- § 39807 In lieu of furnishing transportation to pupils attending the schools of a school district, the governing board may pay to the parents or guardian of each pupil…
- § 39807.5 (a) When a local educational agency provides for the transportation of pupils to and from schools, including the governing board of a school district pursuant…
- § 39808 (a) The governing board of any school district may allow a pupil entitled to attend the school of the district, but who, under Section 48222, attends a school…
- § 39809.5 (a) The sum of the state aid received and the parent fees collected in a fiscal year may not exceed actual operating cost of home-to-school transportation in…
ARTICLE 2. State Reimbursement § 39820 · 1 section
- § 39820 Notwithstanding any other law, the governing board of a school district may provide for the transportation to and from public school of pupils who have…
ARTICLE 3. Schoolbuses §§ 39830–39843 · 20 sections
- § 39830 A schoolbus is any motor vehicle designed, used, or maintained for the transportation of a school pupil at or below the grade 12 level to or from a public or…
- § 39830.1 A “school pupil activity bus” means any motor vehicle, other than a schoolbus, operated by a common carrier, or by and under the exclusive jurisdiction of a…
- § 39831 (a) The State Board of Education shall adopt reasonable regulations relating to the use of schoolbuses by school districts and others. The regulations may not…
- § 39831.1 The state board shall adopt regulations to require a passenger in a schoolbus equipped with passenger restraint systems in accordance with Section 27316 of the…
- § 39831.2 The state board shall adopt regulations to require a passenger in a school pupil activity bus equipped with passenger restraint systems in accordance with…
- § 39831.3 (a) The county superintendent of schools, the superintendent of a school district, a charter school, or the owner or operator of a private school that provides…
- § 39831.5 (a) All pupils in prekindergarten, kindergarten, and grades 1 to 12, inclusive, in public or private school who are transported in a schoolbus or school pupil…
- § 39832 The name or names of the particular school or schools to which a schoolbus conveys pupils may be painted on the side of the bus, in the manner prescribed by…
- § 39833 Any officer, agent, or employee of a school district, or any other person knowingly operating, or permitting or directing the operation of a schoolbus in…
- § 39834 (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…
- § 39835 (a) The governing board of any school district may use schoolbuses to transport persons for purposes of community recreation as provided in Chapter 10…
- § 39836 During any national emergency declared by the President of the United States of America or during any war in which the United States of America is engaged, the…
- § 39837 The governing board of any school district may use and operate any bus owned or under lease to the district for the transportation of pupils to and from their…
- § 39837.5 The governing board of a school district may provide for the transportation on schoolbuses of employees of the school district, parents of pupils of the school…
- § 39838 (a) Each schoolbus shall be equipped with one or more fire extinguishers bearing the approval of the laboratories of the National Board of Fire Underwriters,…
- § 39839 Guide dogs, signal dogs, and service dogs trained to provide assistance to individuals with a disability may be transported in a schoolbus when accompanied by…
- § 39840 The governing board of any school district may enter into a contract under the terms of which the school district grants the use of any schoolbus that is owned…
- § 39841 The following requirements shall be included in any agreement entered into between a school district and a publicly owned transit system under which the school…
- § 39842 (a) Any person who enters a schoolbus or school pupil activity bus without prior authorization of the driver or other school official with intent to commit any…
- § 39843 (a) The county superintendent of schools, the superintendent of a school district, a charter school, or the owner or operator of a private school that provides…
ARTICLE 4. Special Services § 39860 · 1 section
- § 39860 (a) The governing board of a school district may contract for the transportation of pupils attending schools within the district to and from any exposition or…
ARTICLE 5. Compensated Driver Requirements §§ 39875–39882 · 7 sections
- § 39875 (a) Except as provided pursuant to subdivisions (b) to (g), inclusive, this article shall apply to all drivers employed by a local educational agency,…
- § 39877 (a) A driver who provides transportation services for pupils in a vehicle with a maximum capacity of 10 or fewer persons, including the driver, shall: (1) Hold…
- § 39878 A driver who provides transportation services for pupils in a vehicle with a capacity of more than 10 persons, including the driver, shall: (a) Hold a valid…
- § 39879 (a) Any local educational agency contracting with a private entity to provide pupil transportation shall obtain from the private entity a written attestation…
- § 39880 (a) To the extent that the requirements of this article conflict with a contract entered into between a local educational agency and a private entity before…
- § 39881 As used in this article, the following definitions apply: (a) “Applicable law” means applicable California laws within the Labor and Workforce Development…
- § 39882 (a) Except as provided pursuant to subdivision (b), this article shall become operative on July 1, 2025. (b) Section 39880 shall become operative on January 1,…