(a) A municipal school district or regional educational attendance area shall

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Terms Used In Alaska Statutes 14.09.030

  • attendance area: means the geographic area designated by the department to be served by a school. See Alaska Statutes 14.60.010
  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • department: means the Department of Education and Early Development. See Alaska Statutes 14.60.010
  • person: includes a corporation, company, partnership, firm, association, organization, business trust, or society, as well as a natural person. See Alaska Statutes 01.10.060
  • regional educational attendance area: means an educational service area in the unorganized borough which may or may not include a military reservation, and that contains one or more public schools of grade levels K-12 or any portion of those grade levels that are to be operated under the management and control of a single regional school board. See Alaska Statutes 14.60.010
(1) provide instruction on safe boarding, riding, exiting, and emergency procedures to school children transported to or from a public school by school bus;
(2) provide instruction to drivers and passengers on the proper use of seat belts if school children in the municipal school district or regional educational attendance area are transported in buses equipped with seat belts; and
(3) conduct at least three school bus drills each school year in safe boarding, exiting, and emergency procedures; one drill must be conducted during the first three weeks of the school term.
(b) The department shall

(1) establish equipment requirements for each type of school bus that is used to transport school children to or from a public school;
(2) at least twice each calendar year, inspect each school bus for compliance with requirements adopted under this subsection; and
(3) maintain a record of each accident involving a school bus or other vehicle transporting school children that is owned by, leased by, or provided under contract to a municipal school district or regional educational attendance area; the record must include the date of the accident, a list of persons injured, whether the person‘s injury occurred within the school bus, and each type of injury.
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