The following is a compilation of the statutes and regulations governing the school transportation program in the state of Oklahama. Also included are brief descriptions of the citations. These provisions are found in the Oklahoma State Code and the Oklahoma Administrative Code Annotated. Anyone interested in the actual language of any reference, or for an interpretation of the reference, should call the supervisor of the Transportation Section of the State Department of Education at 405/521-3472.

SCHOOL LAWS OF OKLAHOMA

OKLAHOMA STATE CODE

Article III State Department of Education

Article V School Districts and Boards of Education

Article IX Transportation

Section 92. School Buildings and Property - Permission to Use for Other Purposes.

Section 211. Transportation for Pupils - Approval by State Board of Education.

Section 212. Transportation Costs - Reporting.

Section 213. Purchase or Contract for Use of Vehicles - Lettering.

Section 214. Transportation Equipment - Definition.

Section 215. Boundaries of Area for Transportation - Define Routes.

Section 216. Insurance.

Section 217. Rules of the Road.

Section 218. Additional Transportation - Expense.

Section 219. Price List and Description of Transportation Equipment (refers to National Standards)

Section 220. Special Transportation Revolving Fund.

Section 221. Use of Fund.

Section 222. Lease of Equipment.

Section 223. Rental Value of Equipment.

Section 224. Sale of Units of Equipment After Lease for One Year.

Section 225. Care of Equipment.

Section 226. Space for Storage of Equipment.

Section 227. Expense Paid from What Funds.

Section 228. School Bus Drivers - Course of Instruction Required.

Section 320. Transportation Equipment - Bonds.

Section 410. Forfeit State Aid.

Section 822. School Bus-Overtaking and Passing - Markings.

Section 823. School Buses - Lighting Equipment - Warning Devices.

Section 838. School Buses and Other Vehicles - Obstruction to Driver's View and Driving Mechanism - Overcrowding.

Section 839. Speed Limit for School Buses - School Zones Outside Municipalities - Signs.

Section 841. Transportation of School Children Exempt from Motor Carrier Regulation Act.

OKLAHOMA STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION REGULATIONS

Chapter 30. School Facilities and Transportation, Subchapter 5
Transportation* 210:30-5-1

District operation and management

Definitions

Administration

Students - legally transported - transfers

Activities - purposes - uses

Routes and Boundries - routes - boundries - routes inside transportation area - change after bus routes have been approved - petition for changing boundry lines - changing areas, high school districts discontinued

School bus - equipment - school bus inspections - standards and school bus specifications

Special education - loading responsibility - extended boundaries

School bus driver certification - general criteria - certificate requirements

* This subchapter [see Section F(3)] contains Oklahoma's National Standards and school bus specifications.

Source:

• Oklahoma State Code
  
• Oklahoma Administrative Code Annotated
  
• Oklahoma State Board of Education Regulations

Last updated on October 15, 1996