NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1973 SESSION

CHAPTER 586

HOUSE BILL 791

AN ACT TO AMEND ARTICLE 22 OF CHAPTER 115 OF THE GENERAL STATUTES TO PROVIDE FOR THE TRANSPORTATION OF ELEMENTARY AND HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS IN SEPARATE BUSES.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  G.S. 115-180 is amended by inserting the following sentence after the first sentence as follows:

"Boards of education which own and operate school buses for the transportation of pupils shall have authority to establish separate systems of transportation for pupils attending elementary schools and for pupils attending junior or senior high schools."

Sec. 2.  Funds appropriated for this purpose shall be allocated to the respective county and city boards of education to implement the purposes of this act in accordance with the requirements of such boards as determined by the State Board of Education.

Sec. 3.  This act shall become effective July 1, 1973.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 18th day of May, 1973.