Iowa Administrative Code › Agency 281 - Education Department › Title VIII - School Transportation › Chapter 43 - Pupil Transportation › Rule 281-43.34 - 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 contains, but is not limited to, 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) Reserved.
(8) To use only drivers and substitute
				drivers who have been approved by the board of education and have received a
				school bus driver's authorization.
(9) 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.
(10) To attend a school of instruction for
				bus drivers as prescribed by the bureau of nutrition programs and school
				transportation of the department of education. (If the owner does not drive the
				bus, the regular approved driver of the bus shall attend.).
(11) To carry insurance on bus and pupils in
				the coverages and limits as determined by the board of education. Copy of
				policy to be filed with superintendent of schools.
(12) To make such reports as may be required
				by state department of education, area education agency board of education, and
				superintendent of schools.
(13) 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.
(14) 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.
(15) 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.
(16) 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.
(17) To allow the contract to be terminated
				on 90-day notice by either party as provided by Iowa Code section
				285.5(4).
(18) 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 requirement does not apply to a passenger vehicle used as a school
				bus.