(1) Boards of education may provide transportation from their general funds or otherwise for any pupil of any grade to the nearest school to the pupil’s residence within the district if the pupil does not live within a reasonable walking distance to such nearest school of appropriate grade level. The local board may provide transportation by means of a board-operated transportation system, transit authorities organized and operating pursuant to KRS Chapter 96A, local governmental mass transit systems, and individual contracted buses and vehicles.
(2) When space is not available at the nearest school, boards of education may provide transportation from their general funds or otherwise for any pupil of any grade who does not live within a reasonable walking distance to the nearest school of appropriate grade level where space is available. Transportation may be provided by means pursuant to subsection (1) of this section.
(3) Public elementary and secondary schools shall not change their present grade level structure without written permission from the Kentucky Board of Education.
(4) The boards of education shall adopt such rules and regulations as will insure the comfort, health, and safety of the children who are transported, consistent with the rules and regulations of the Kentucky Board of Education dealing with the transportation of pupils.
Effective: July 15, 1996
History: Amended 1996 Ky. Acts ch. 362, sec. 6, effective July 15, 1996. — Amended
1990 Ky. Acts ch. 476, Pt. IV, sec. 201, effective July 13, 1990. — Amended 1986
Ky. Acts ch. 161, sec. 1, effective July 15, 1986. — Amended 1978 Ky. Acts ch. 155, sec. 82, effective June 17, 1978. — Amended 1976 Ky. Acts ch. 78, sec. 3, March 29,
1976. — Amended 1944 Ky. Acts ch. 173, sec. 10. — Recodified 1942 Ky. Acts ch.
208, sec. 1, effective October 1, 1942, from Ky. Stat. sec. 4399-20.