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...s 2024 and 2025, "assigned bus" means a school bus used to transport qualifying riders. (2) For fiscal years 2024 and 2025, "density" means the total riders per square mile of a school district. (3) For fiscal years 2024 and 2025, "nontraditional ridership" means the average number of qualifying riders who are enrolled in a community school established under Chapter 3314. of the Revised Code, in a STEM school e...

...shall be employed as driver of a school bus or motor van, owned and operated by any school district or educational service center or privately owned and operated under contract with any school district or service center in this state, who has not received a certificate from either the educational service center governing board that has entered into an agreement with the school district under section 3313.843 or 3313....

...taking from either direction any school bus stopped for the purpose of receiving or discharging any school child, person attending programs offered by community boards of mental health and county boards of developmental disabilities, or child attending a program offered by a head start agency, shall stop at least ten feet from the front or rear of the school bus and shall not proceed until such school bus resumes mot...

...hool district may establish a volunteer bus rider assistance program, under which qualified adults or responsible older pupils, as determined by the superintendent, may be authorized to ride on school buses with pupils during such periods of time that the buses are being used to transport pupils to and from schools. Volunteers shall not be compensated for their services, but older pupils may be excused early from sch...

....34 of the Revised Code. (F) "School bus" means every bus designed for carrying more than nine passengers that is owned by a public, private, or governmental agency or institution of learning and operated for the transportation of children to or from a school session or a school function, or owned by a private person and operated for compensation for the transportation of children to or from a school session or a ...

...l disabilities no longer needs a school bus because the board no longer transports children to a special education program operated by the board, or if the department determines that a school district no longer needs a school bus to transport pupils to a nonpublic school or special education program, the department may reassign a bus that was funded with payments provided pursuant to the version of this section in ef...

...nsported to and from school by a school bus arrive more than thirty minutes late to school; (2) Students transported to and from school by a school bus are picked up more than thirty minutes after the end of the school day; (3) Students scheduled to be transported to and from school by a school bus are not transported by school bus at all due to the failure of the bus to arrive; (4) A school district has bee...

...(A) No school bus as defined in division (F) of section 4511.01 of the Revised Code is required to pay the annual license tax provided for in section 4503.02 of the Revised Code or to apply for or display registration plates, provided: the school bus complies with the requirements of sections 4511.76 to 4511.77, inclusive, of the Revised Code. (B) The owner of a school bus, other than a board of education, which is ...

...bus that previously was registered as a school bus that is used or is to be used exclusively for purposes other than the transportation of children, shall operate the bus or permit it to be operated within this state unless the bus has been painted a color different from that prescribed for school buses by section 4511.77 of the Revised Code and painted in such a way that the words "stop" and "school bus" are obliter...

.... (d) The victim of the offense is a school teacher or administrator or a school bus operator, and the offense occurs in a school, on school premises, in a school building, on a school bus, or while the victim is outside of school premises or a school bus and is engaged in duties or official responsibilities associated with the victim's employment or position as a school teacher or administrator or a school bus op...

...ol session or a school function. (2) "Bus" means every motor vehicle designed for carrying more than nine passengers and used for the transportation of persons, but does not mean any school bus as defined in section 4511.01 of the Revised Code. (B) Whenever a mass transit system transports children to or from a school session or school function, the mass transit system shall provide for: (1) Periodic safety ...

...e commerce by aircraft, railroad train, school or other bus, taxicab, or other type of common carrier, whether or not a charge is imposed for the transportation. "Business of public transportation" includes, but is not limited to, an Ohio transit system. (3) "Civil action" means a tort or contract action for damages for harm. (4) "Employee" means an individual who is employed by an employer to operate any aircraft,...

...age school district may maintain school bus turn-around points. At the request of such a board, a municipal corporation may maintain turn-around points on municipal roads; the township trustees may maintain turn-around points on township roads; and the county commissioners may maintain turn-around points on county roads. The municipal corporation, township trustees, or county commissioners may also, at the request o...

...e other party also is a driver training school, prohibits its skills test examiners from administering skills tests to applicants that the examiner personally trained; (11) Requires each skills test examiner to administer a complete skills test to a minimum of ten different individuals per calendar year; (12) Reserves to this state the right to take prompt and appropriate remedial action against the other party...

...unt requiring placarding, or any school bus with a gross vehicle weight or gross vehicle weight rating of less than twenty-six thousand one pounds that is designed to transport fewer than sixteen passengers including the driver. (C) The following endorsements apply to commercial drivers' licenses: (1) H--authorizes the driver to drive a vehicle transporting hazardous materials in an amount requiring placarding; (2...

...rt pupils to or from school on a school bus or enter into a contract with a board of education of any school district for the transportation of pupils on a school bus, without being licensed by the department of public safety. Notwithstanding the requirements for a license issued under this division, the director shall issue a license in accordance with Chapter 4796. of the Revised Code to a person if either of the...

...ghway patrol shall inspect every school bus to ascertain whether its construction, design, and equipment comply with the regulations adopted pursuant to section 4511.76 of the Revised Code and all other provisions of law. The superintendent of the state highway patrol shall adopt a distinctive inspection decal not less than twelve inches in size, and bearing the date of the inspection, which shall be affixed to the ...

...refor permit the operation of, a school bus within this state unless it is painted national school bus yellow and is marked on both front and rear with the words "school bus" in black lettering not less than eight inches in height and on the rear of the bus with the word "stop" in black lettering not less than ten inches in height. (B) Except as otherwise provided in this division, whoever violates this section is g...

...is section does not apply to any school bus used to transport a child with disabilities pursuant to Chapter 3323. of the Revised Code, whom it is impossible or impractical to transport by regular school bus in the course of regular route transportation provided by a school district. As used in this division, "child with disabilities" has the same meaning as in section 3323.01 of the Revised Code. (I) This section d...

... Monday in May is designated as "School Bus Drivers Appreciation Day" to increase public recognition of the important function that school bus drivers serve in safely transporting the children of this state to and from school.

...Title XXIX of the Revised Code: (1) "School safety zone" consists of a school, school building, school premises, school activity, and school bus. (2) "School," "school building," and "school premises" have the same meanings as in section 2925.01 of the Revised Code. (3) "School activity" means any activity held under the auspices of a board of education of a city, local, exempted village, joint vocational, o...

...ractical to transport by regular school bus in the course of regular route transportation provided by the school district or educational service center. For fiscal years 2024 and 2025, this amount shall be equal to the actual costs incurred in the prior fiscal year by the district or service center when transporting those students, as reported to the department, multiplied by one of the following: (a) For a distri...

...ify a person for employment as a school bus or school van driver and establishes rehabilitation standards for school bus and school van drivers. (F) Any person required by division (A)(1) of this section to request a criminal records check shall inform each person, at the time of the person's initial application for employment, of the requirement to provide a set of fingerprint impressions and that a criminal reco...

...rator, nonlicensed school employee, or bus driver in a public school may inflict or cause to be inflicted corporal punishment as a means of discipline upon a pupil attending such school. (B) A person employed or otherwise engaged as a teacher, principal, or administrator by a nonpublic school, except as otherwise provided by the governing authority of the nonpublic school, may inflict or cause to be inflicted...

...irect travel time as measured 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. Where it is impractical to transport a pupil by school conveyance, a board of education may offer payment, in lieu of providing such transportation in accordance with section 3327.02 of the Revised Code. A board of education sha...