Document Citation: Cal Ed Code § 39834

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CALIFORNIA CODE ANNOTATED
EDUCATION CODE
Title 2. ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION
Division 3. Local Administration
Part 23.5. Transportation
Chapter 1. Transportation Services
Article 3. Schoolbuses


Date:
08/31/2009

Document:
Cal Ed Code § 39834 (2010)

§ 39834. Children in excess of seating capacity


(a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), any officer, agent, or employee of a school district, office of the county superintendent of schools, or joint powers agency, or any other person, knowingly operating, or permitting or directing the operation of a schoolbus, when it is loaded with schoolchildren in excess of the limits of its seating capacity, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

(b) The governing board of any school district, office of the county superintendent of schools, or joint powers agency may adopt a district policy establishing plans for the evacuation of pupils in case of any emergency that may provide, where necessary, for the loading of schoolchildren on a schoolbus in excess of the limits of its seating capacity.

(c) As used in this section, "emergency" means a natural disaster or hazard that requires pupils to be moved immediately in order to ensure their safety.