NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY
1961 SESSION

CHAPTER 474
HOUSE BILL 573

AN ACT TO REQUIRE INSPECTION OF ACTIVITY BUSES USED IN THE TRANSPORTATION OF PERSONNEL AND PUPILS OF THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1.  G.S. 115‑187, as amended, and as the same appears in the 1960 Replacement Volume, No. 3‑A of the General Statutes of North Carolina, is hereby further amended by adding thereto a new subsection, designated as No. 4, which shall read as follows:
"4.	The superintendent of schools in each county, and in each city administrative unit, shall cause each activity bus which is used for the transportation of students by such county or city administrative unit or any public school system therein to be inspected for mechanical defects, or other defects which may affect the safe operation of such activity bus, at the same time and in the same way and manner as the regular public school buses for the normal transportation of public school pupils are inspected. A report of such inspection, together with the recommendations of the person making the inspection, shall be filed with the principal of the school which uses and operates such activity bus and a copy shall be forwarded to the superintendent of schools or city administrative unit involved. It shall be the duty of the driver of each activity bus to make the same reports to the principal of the school using and operating such activity bus as is required by this Section. If any public school activity bus is found to be so defective that the activity bus may not be operated with reasonable safety, it shall be the duty of such principal to cause the use of such activity bus to be discontinued until such defect is remedied to the satisfaction of the person making the inspection and a report to this effect has been filed in the manner herein prescribed. Nothing in this subsection shall authorize the use of State or local tax funds for the purchase, operation or repair of any activity bus."
Sec. 2.  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed.
Sec. 3.  This Act shall be in full force and effect from and after its ratification.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 23rd day of May, 1961.