Iowa Administrative Code › Agency 281 - Education Department › Title VIII - School Transportation › Chapter 43 - Pupil Transportation › Rule 281-43.21 - Contract-privately Owned Buses

Current through Register Vol. 47, No. 3, July 24, 2024
The board of education and a contractor who undertakes to
				  transport school pupils for the board, in privately owned vehicles, shall sign
				  a contract that includes the following provisions:
(1) To furnish and operate at the
				contractor's own expense a legally approved vehicle of transportation
				transporting only children attending the school designated by the board of
				education.
(2) To comply with all
				legal and established uniform standards of operation as required by statute or
				by legally constituted authorities.
(3) To comply with all uniform standards
				established for protection of health and safety for pupils
				transported.
(4) To comply with all
				rules and regulations adopted by the board of education for the protection of
				the children, or to govern the conduct of the driver of bus.
(5) To keep bus in good mechanical condition
				and up to standards required by statutes or by legally constituted
				authorities.
(6) To take school bus
				to official inspection when held by state authorities with no additional
				expense to party of second part.
(7)
				To use only drivers and substitute drivers who have been approved by the board
				of education and have been issued a current school bus driver's
				authorization.
(8) To furnish the
				board of education an approved certificate of medical examination for each
				person who is approved by the board of education to drive the bus.
(9) To attend a school of instruction for bus
				drivers as prescribed by the department of education. (If the owner does not
				drive the bus, the regular approved driver of the bus shall attend.)
(10) To carry insurance on bus and pupils in
				the coverages and limits as determined by the board of education, with a copy
				of the policy filed with superintendent of schools.
(11) To make such reports as may be required
				by state department of education, area education agency board of education, and
				superintendent of schools.
(12) To
				use the school bus only for transporting regularly enrolled students to and
				from public school and to extracurricular activities approved and designated by
				the board of education and further to comply with all legal restrictions on use
				of bus.
(13) To obtain, if possible,
				the license plate numbers of all vehicles violating the school bus passing law,
				Iowa Code section 321.372, and file information
				for prosecution.
(14) To reserve
				the right of the board of education to change routing of the bus and, if
				additional mileage is required, allow for an extra cost.
(15) To ensure immoral conduct or the use of
				alcoholic beverages by the contractor or driver employed by the contractor
				shall result in appropriate sanctions as provided in Iowa Code section
				321.375.
(16) To allow the contract to be terminated
				on 90-day notice by either party as provided by Iowa Code section
				285.5(4).
(17) An agreement that, if
				the contractor desires to terminate the contract, the school bus will be sold
				to the board of education at its request as provided in Iowa Code section
				285.5(1). This provision does not apply to a passenger vehicle used as a school
				bus.