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SC Code § 59-67-510 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 59 - Education|Chapter 67 - Transportation Of Pupils; School Buses|Section 59-67-510. Use of transportation equipment for special events, office of Adjutant General and armed services reserve component functions, and other educational purposes.

 County boards of education may permit the use of school bus equipment for transportation in connection with athletic events, boy's and girl's clubs, special events in connection with the schools, official functions by the office of the Adjutant General of South Carolina, and the Reserve Components of the United States Armed Forces which must reimburse the boards of education, at least, for the costs of use of the buses, including depreciation, and other educational purposes as may appear proper to the respective boards.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 21-839.4; 1952 Code Section 21-839.4; 1951 (47) 546; 1999 Act No. 100, Part II, Section 38.
SC Code § 59-67-515 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 59 - Education|Chapter 67 - Transportation Of Pupils; School Buses|Section 59-67-515. Speed limit for public school buses; exceptions.

 No public school bus may be operated in this State in excess of forty-five miles an hour, except when traveling on a highway with a posted maximum speed limit above fifty-five miles an hour, or when traveling to and from special events which necessitate travel on interstate or state primary highways. Special event variances from the authorized speed limit for public school buses must be obtained by written authorization from the Department of Education. In no instance may the public school bus be authorized to exceed the speed of fifty-five miles an hour. Public school buses are not required to have devices to govern the speed or operation of the vehicles.  HISTORY: 1992 Act No. 351, Section 1; 1993 Act No. 52, Section 1.
SC Code § 59-67-520 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 59 - Education|Chapter 67 - Transportation Of Pupils; School Buses|Section 59-67-520. Transportation of handicapped persons.

 Notwithstanding the provisions of Sections 59-33-50, 59-67-420 and 59-67-510, the State Department of Education shall have the responsibility for transporting handicapped persons of lawful school age to and from the nearest school in which a handicapped pupil has been duly assigned. Additionally, when a school district is providing classes for handicapped persons between the ages of five and twenty-one years at the same location where classes and programs are provided for handicapped persons under age five and over age twenty-one, and when a cost reduction will result, the Department may enter into a reciprocal agreement with the facility whereby certain handicapped persons between the ages of five and twenty-one years may be transported on buses not owned by the Department and certain handicapped persons under age five and over age twenty-one may be transported on Department owned buses.  HISTORY: 1975 (59) 111; 1980 Act No. 406, Section 1.
SC Code § 59-67-530 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 59 - Education|Chapter 67 - Transportation Of Pupils; School Buses|Section 59-67-530. Expenses of operation of State and locally owned buses.

 The Board shall be responsible for all expenses of operation of State-owned buses and for the replacement of obsolete equipment. The State shall assume no obligation whatever for the expenses of operating buses owned by local or county school agencies, except as provided in Section 59-67-460.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 21-839.5; 1952 Code Section 21-839.5; 1951 (47) 546.
SC Code § 59-67-535 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 59 - Education|Chapter 67 - Transportation Of Pupils; School Buses|Section 59-67-535. Use of boats for transportation of school children from Sandy Island to transport residents.

 Boats operated by the State Department of Education for transportation of school children from Sandy Island to mainland schools also may be used to transport, on a space available basis only, any Sandy Island resident. A person requesting boat transportation shall present his residence verification to the employee or representative of the State Department of Education who is in charge of the particular boat.  The term "resident" as used herein means a person with an official residential address on Sandy Island.  Use of these boats by residents shall be only on a space available basis and only at such time as the boat is being otherwise operated on official business. School children in every case shall be given priority of carriage. Provided, that other trips on the Sandy Island boat may be approved by the county school district, in which case the operations, logistics, and all costs shall be borne by the school district to the extent that funds are available. The school district may contract with a third party to operate the ferry and manage the logistics associated with the other trips. Persons who are not residents of Sandy Island may be allowed to be transported by the boat when accompanied by a resident.  Any person authorized for transportation pursuant to the provisions of this section shall, prior to boarding, execute a "covenant not to sue" the State of South Carolina or any agency thereof, on a form approved by the State Department of Education.  Nothing in this section shall be construed as a waiver of the state's general immunity from liability and suit.  HISTORY: 1981 Act No. 51, Section 1; 2009 Act No. 17, Section 1, eff May 14, 2009.  Effect of Amendment  The 2009 amendment rewrote this section to limit its application to Sandy Island and to allow transportation of any resident rather than only those over fifty-five or disabled or legally blind.
SC Code § 59-67-540 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 59 - Education|Chapter 67 - Transportation Of Pupils; School Buses|Section 59-67-540. Supplies and maintenance of state-owned buses; maintenance and supply stations.

 The Department of Transportation shall be responsible for providing all supplies required for the operation of state-owned school buses and for maintaining them in efficient and safe mechanical condition. The department shall be reimbursed periodically by the State Board of Education for expenditures incident to the operation and maintenance of buses, but no charge by, or reimbursement to, the Department of Transportation shall be made except to cover direct and additional expenses incurred by the department on account of the performance of this service. Provided, however, that the Board of Education shall have authority to establish and operate maintenance and supply stations, on an experimental or permanent basis, if it should be determined to be of advantage to the State, and in connection therewith to acquire real property by purchase or lease.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 21-839.6; 1952 Code Section 21-839.6; 1951 (47) 546; 1958 (50) 1721; 1993 Act No. 181, Section 1577.
SC Code § 59-67-545 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 59 - Education|Chapter 67 - Transportation Of Pupils; School Buses|Section 59-67-545. Parents and other adult school volunteers or employees authorized to ride route school buses on space available basis.

 Parents and other adult school volunteers or employees may ride route school buses on a space available basis. Parents and other adults also may ride school buses in conjunction with special programs that are sponsored by the local school district. This use of route school buses shall be in accordance with local school district board policies and programs.  School districts may not re-route school buses in order to accommodate the pickup of adults authorized to ride school buses as provided by this section. The State is not responsible for any costs associated with parents and other adults riding school buses in conjunction with special programs. The provisions of this section shall not be construed as a waiver or abrogation of the state's limited immunity from liability and suit under the State Tort Claims Act.  HISTORY: 1997 Act No. 104, Section 1.
SC Code § 59-67-550 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 59 - Education|Chapter 67 - Transportation Of Pupils; School Buses|Section 59-67-550. Installment purchase of maintenance shops.

 The State Board of Education is authorized to enter into an installment payment agreement with any political subdivision offering to convey real property to the Board for use as a school bus maintenance shop, whereby payments for such property may be extended over a period of not more than ten years.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 21-839.7; 1959 (51) 599.
SC Code § 59-67-570 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 59 - Education|Chapter 67 - Transportation Of Pupils; School Buses|Section 59-67-570. Rules and regulations.

 The State Board of Education may adopt such rules and regulations as may be necessary to carry out the intent and purposes of this article. Such rules and regulations shall have the full force and effect of law. But rules and regulations that affect the functions of the Department of Public Safety under this article or the operation of buses on the highways shall be adopted only jointly with the Department of Public Safety.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 21-839.9; 1952 Code Section 21-839.7; 1951 (47) 546; 1993 Act No. 181, Section 1578.
SC Code § 59-67-580 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 59 - Education|Chapter 67 - Transportation Of Pupils; School Buses|Section 59-67-580. Replacement cycle; funding.

 (A) With funds appropriated by the General Assembly for school bus purchases, the State Board of Education shall implement a school bus replacement cycle to replace approximately one-fifteenth of the fleet each year with new school buses, resulting in a complete replacement of the fleet every fifteen years. These funds must not be used for school bus maintenance or fuel.  (B) With funds appropriated by the General Assembly for transportation grant programs, the department shall establish a grant program to fund transportation of students to alternate public schools including, but not limited to, vocational second and third choice schools, magnet schools, montessori schools, international baccalaureate schools, and English as a second language schools. Those districts having alternate public schools may apply to the department for grant funds to pay for the additional cost of transporting students to these schools. If funds are not appropriated by the General Assembly for this purpose, then neither the State nor a local school district is required to assume this obligation.  HISTORY: 2007 Act No. 79, Section 7, eff June 7, 2007.
SC Code § 59-67-585 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 59 - Education|Chapter 67 - Transportation Of Pupils; School Buses|Section 59-67-585. Use of biodiesel fuel.

 The State Department of Education, when feasible, shall utilize biodiesel fuel as an energy source to power the state school bus fleet.  HISTORY: 2007 Act No. 79, Section 8, eff June 7, 2007.
SC Code § 59-67-720 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 59 - Education|Chapter 67 - Transportation Of Pupils; School Buses|Section 59-67-720. Payment of premiums.

 The premiums on all insurance contracts procured under the authority of Section 59-67-710 shall be paid out of the annual appropriation for transportation operated by the State Board of Education. Such premiums shall be considered a part of the general expenses of operating school bus transportation.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 21-840.1; 1953 (48) 396.
SC Code § 59-67-730 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 59 - Education|Chapter 67 - Transportation Of Pupils; School Buses|Section 59-67-730. Counties and other political subdivisions prohibited from providing supplemental benefits on state-owned buses.

 No county or other political subdivision shall supplement the benefits provided in this article by the procuring of insurance or by any other means on State-owned buses.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 21-840.2; 1953 (48) 396.
SC Code § 59-67-740 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 59 - Education|Chapter 67 - Transportation Of Pupils; School Buses|Section 59-67-740. Contracts of insurance on county and district-owned and contract buses.

 County and district boards of education owning school buses are directed to provide the same insurance coverage for the lawful occupants of a county or district-owned bus as is provided for the lawful occupants of a State-owned school bus under Section 59-67-710. County and district boards of education are further directed to see that this same insurance coverage is provided for all lawful occupants of any contract vehicle operated under contract with such county and district boards of education.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 21-840.3; 1953 (48) 396.
SC Code § 59-67-760 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 59 - Education|Chapter 67 - Transportation Of Pupils; School Buses|Section 59-67-760. Waiver of claim against bus driver.

 The acceptance of any payment or the bringing of any action authorized by this article shall constitute a waiver of any liability that might otherwise exist on the part of the driver of any State-owned school bus operated under the authority of Article 3 of this chapter.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 21-840.5; 1953 (48) 396.
SC Code § 59-67-765 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 59 - Education|Chapter 67 - Transportation Of Pupils; School Buses|Section 59-67-765. Waiver of sovereign immunity up to limits of insurance coverage.

 For the purpose of this article, the doctrine of sovereign immunity for the State is hereby waived up to the limits of the insurance coverage specified therein.  HISTORY: 1977 Act No. 215, Section 3.
SC Code § 59-67-770 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 59 - Education|Chapter 67 - Transportation Of Pupils; School Buses|Section 59-67-770. State's immunity not waived.

 Nothing in this article shall be construed as a waiver of the State's general immunity from liability and suit beyond the limits of the insurance coverage specified therein.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 21-840.6; 1953 (48) 396; 1977 Act No. 215, Section 4.
SC Code § 59-67-780 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 59 - Education|Chapter 67 - Transportation Of Pupils; School Buses|Section 59-67-780. Rules and regulations.

 The Director of the Sinking Funds and Property Division of the State Department of Administration may promulgate any rules or regulations or set up any procedure which will, in his judgment, clarify the provisions or facilitate the purposes of this article.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 21-840.7; 1953 (48) 396.
SC Code § 59-67-790 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 59 - Education|Chapter 67 - Transportation Of Pupils; School Buses|Section 59-67-790. Pupil Injury Insurance Fund.

 There is hereby created a fund to be administered by the Director of the Division of General Services to provide major medical benefits for bodily injuries to school bus passengers when the cost exceeds the benefits provided for in subsection (1)(a) of Section 59-67-710 of the 1976 Code. No claim shall exceed fifty thousand dollars for any one person for any one accident.  The Director of the Division of General Services shall pay into the Pupil Injury Insurance Fund that portion of the premiums charged to the State Department of Education for providing insurance covering buses he deems necessary to maintain the Pupil Injury Insurance Fund at an actuarially sound level sufficient to pay the benefits authorized by this section.  No payment from the Pupil Injury Insurance Fund shall be permitted when other insurance benefits or workers' compensation is available to pay such cost or where no charge is made for treatment. Whoever shall file a claim for payment from the Pupil Injury Insurance Fund shall at the same time file an affidavit swearing under oath that the requested claim is not covered by other insurance benefits or workers' compensation to be received for that claim; provided, this shall not apply to any injured school bus passenger who receives, for bodily injuries, an amount not exceeding three thousand dollars under Section 59-67-710(1)(b) of the 1976 Code.  Any recovery from the State or governmental entity under Chapter 78 of Title 15 of the 1976 Code shall be reduced by the sum received pursuant to this section. In any recovery from a third party, the State shall have a right of subrogation for recovery of payments pursuant to this section.  The Director of the Division of General Services, with the approval of the Department of Administration, shall promulgate such rules and regulations as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this section.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 21-840.8; 1974 (58) 2608; 1977 Act No. 215, Section 2; 1986 Act No. 463, Section 5.
SC Code § 59-69-10 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 59 - Education|Chapter 69 - School Funds Generally|Section 59-69-10. State Treasurer may invest certain fund received from United States Government.

 The State Treasurer may invest the fund received by him pursuant to an act entitled "An Act to Authorize the State Treasurer to Receive from the United States Government a Certain Fund and to Hold the Same Subject to the Uses Declared by an Act of Congress," approved February 20, 1907, as amended by an act approved February 25, 1908, in bonds or stocks of the State, in loans secured by like bonds or stock of the State or in bonds of any county, school district or municipality within the State and shall hold the same subject to the trust and uses in said act of Congress designated, and the State Treasurer may, in making such investments, pay the market value for bonds, whether the same be above par or not.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 21-901; 1952 Code Section 21-901; 1942 Code Section 5393; 1932 Code Section 5279; Civ. C. '22 Section 2539; 1914 (28) 742; 1917 (30) 340.
SC Code § 59-69-20 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 59 - Education|Chapter 69 - School Funds Generally|Section 59-69-20. State Treasurer shall hold certain property and moneys for educational purposes.

 The State Treasurer shall take and hold in trust for the State any grant or devise of lands and any gift or bequest of money or other personal property made to him for educational purposes, all gifts to the State when the purpose is not designated, all escheated property, the net assets or funds of all estates or copartnerships in the hands of the courts of the State when there have been no claimants for the same within the last seventy years and other money that came into the State Treasury by reason of the twelfth section of an act entitled "An Act to Provide a Mode of Distribution of the Moneys as Collected as Direct Tax from the Citizens of this State by the United States, and Turned Over in Trust to the State of South Carolina," approved December 24, 1891 (Acts 1891, p. 1067), together with such other means as the General Assembly may provide. For faithful management of all property so received the State Treasurer shall be responsible upon his bond to the State as for other funds received by him in his official capacity.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 21-902; 1952 Code Section 21-902; 1942 Code Section 5392; 1932 Code Section 5278; Civ. C. '22 Section 2538; Civ. C. '12 Section 1702; Civ. C. '02 Section 1178; 1896 (22) 150; 1917 (30) 384; 1942 (42) 1444.
SC Code § 59-69-30 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 59 - Education|Chapter 69 - School Funds Generally|Section 59-69-30. State school fund.

 The State Treasurer shall from time to time invest in bonds of this State or of the United States or in bonds of any county, school district or municipality within the State all such money in the name of the State as a permanent State school fund and shall pay out the income derived therefrom to the counties of the State as the same may be apportioned among the counties by the State Board of Education. But no disposition shall be made of any property, grant, devise, gift or bequest inconsistent with the purposes, conditions or terms thereof.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 21-903; 1952 Code Section 21-903; 1942 Code Section 5392; 1932 Code Section 5278; Civ. C. '22 Section 2538; Civ. C. '12 Section 1702; Civ. C. '02 Section 1178; 1896 (22) 150; 1917 (30) 384; 1942 (42) 1444.
SC Code § 59-69-40 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 59 - Education|Chapter 69 - School Funds Generally|Section 59-69-40. Funds given to State Superintendent for educational purposes.

 The State Superintendent of Education shall take and hold in trust for the State any grant or devise of lands and any gift or bequest of money or other personal property made to him for educational purposes and he shall pay into the State Treasury, for safekeeping and investment, all moneys and incomes from property so received. The State Treasurer shall, from time to time, invest all such moneys in the name of the State and shall pay to the State Superintendent of Education, on the warrant of the Comptroller General, the income or principal thereof as he may, from time to time, require; provided, that no disposition shall be made of any grant, devise, gift or bequest inconsistent with the conditions or terms thereof. For all such property the State Treasurer shall be responsible on his bond as for other funds received by him in his official capacity.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 21-904; 1952 Code Section 21-904; 1942 Code Section 3185; 1932 Code Section 3185; Civ. C. '22 Section 879; Civ. C. '12 Section 800; Civ. C. '02 Section 723; G. S. 583; R. S. 641; 1878 (16) 575.
SC Code § 59-69-110 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 59 - Education|Chapter 69 - School Funds Generally|Section 59-69-110. Authorization for creation of reserve fund to place schools on cash basis.

 In any county in this State in which the schools have not funds sufficient to pay all claims in cash the county board of education may, at its discretion, direct the county superintendent of education to set aside from the school funds of the county, or any of the school districts, an amount annually not in excess of ten per cent of such funds, for so many years as may be necessary to create a sufficient fund to put the schools of such county or any of the school districts on a cash basis.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 21-941; 1952 Code Section 21-941; 1942 Code Section 5372; 1932 Code Section 5428; Civ. C. '22 Section 2693; Civ. C. '12 Section 1807; 1902 (24) 1019; 1931 (37) 364.
SC Code § 59-69-120 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 59 - Education|Chapter 69 - School Funds Generally|Section 59-69-120. Use of reserve fund.

 Whenever any such reserve fund reaches an amount sufficient to put the county or school district, as the case may be, on a cash basis, the fund may be used for said purpose. And in each year during the time necessary to create such reserve fund, the county superintendent of education shall use the fund accumulated as a loan, without interest, to pay claims held by teachers to whom pay certificates were originally issued, the funds so used to be replaced annually from taxes collected for school purposes.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 21-943; 1952 Code Section 21-943; 1942 Code Section 5373; 1932 Code Section 5429; Civ. C. '22 Section 2694; Civ. C. '12 Section 1808; 1902 (23) 1020.