NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1975 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 150

HOUSE BILL 154

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND G.S. 115-53 TO INSURE MAXIMUM SAFETY FOR PUPILS BEING TRANSPORTED TO SCHOOL RELATED ACTIVITIES INCLUDING ATHLETIC EVENTS.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 115-53 as the same appears in Volume 3A, 1966 Replacement of the General Statutes, is amended by adding a new paragraph at the end to read as follows:

"County and city boards of education are authorized to purchase activity buses with local capital outlay tax funds, and authorized to maintain these buses in the county school bus garage. Reimbursement to the State Public School Fund shall be made for all maintenance cost including labor, gasoline and oil, repair parts, tires and tubes, antifreeze, etc. Labor cost reimbursements and local funds may be used to employ additional mechanics so as to insure that all activity buses owned and operated by county and city boards of education are maintained in a safe mechanical condition. The State Board of Education shall inspect each activity bus and recommend to the Board whether the bus should be replaced, but replacements will be determined by the County or City Board of Education. Such replacement units for activity buses shall be financed with local funds."

Sec. 2.  G.S. 115-187(d), as the same appears in Volume 3A, 1966 Replacement of the General Statutes, is amended by deleting in line 18 the words "or local tax".

Sec. 3.  This act shall become effective July 1, 1975.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 21st day of April, 1975.