NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1979 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 719

HOUSE BILL 211

 

 

AN ACT TO INSURE THE SAFETY OF STUDENTS ON SCHOOL BUSES.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  The catch line of G.S. 115-185 is amended to read:

"§ 115-185.  School bus drivers; monitors; safety assistants. — "

Sec. 2.  G.S. 115-185(d) is amended by adding at the end thereof the following:

"Such monitors shall be unpaid volunteers who shall serve at the pleasure of the principal."

Sec. 3.  G.S. 115-185 is further amended by adding a new subsection (e) to read as follows:

"(e)       A local board of education may, in its discretion within funds available, employ transportation safety assistants upon recommendation of the principal through the superintendent. The safety assistants thus employed shall assist the bus drivers with the safety, movement, management, and care of children boarding the bus, leaving the bus, or being transported in it. The safety assistant should be either an adult or a certified student driver who is available as a substitute bus driver."

Sec. 4.  G.S. 115-185 is further amended by adding a new subsection (f) to read as follows:

"(f)       Funds appropriated for the special purpose of children with special needs may be used to pay transportation safety assistants employed in accordance with the provisions of this act for buses to which children with special needs are assigned."

Sec. 5.  This act shall become effective July 1, 1979.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 31st day of May, 1979.