Louisiana Revised Statutes 47:468 – School and charity buses
Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes 47:468
- Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
- Department: means the Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development, acting directly through its duly authorized officers and agents, or whatever state board, official, or body may hereafter be authorized by law to exercise the functions now devolving upon it under the law. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 47:451
- Vehicle: means every device in, upon, or by which any person, property, or thing is or may be transported or drawn upon a public highway excepting devices moved by human power or used exclusively upon stationary rails or tracks; provided, that for the purpose of this Chapter, a bicycle or a ridden animal shall not be deemed a vehicle, and provided further that a trailer or semitrailer shall be held and deemed each to be and constitute a separate vehicle. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 47:451
Any passenger carrying vehicle, of whatever class, of a capacity of more than seven passengers and used in the transportation of teachers or pupils to or from schools or their institutions of learning under contract or other arrangement made by or with the constituted and authorized school authorities, and any same type vehicle, which is owned and operated by and solely used for a nonprofit charitable institution, shall pay an annual license or registration fee of ten dollars per vehicle, regardless of its passenger capacity.
For the purposes of this Section the applicant shall provide his sales tax exemption number as issued by the Louisiana Department of Revenue. This requirement shall not be necessary for religious orders operating as nonprofit charitable institutions.
Amended by Acts 1975, No. 754, §1.