GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

1985 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 233

HOUSE BILL 439

 

AN ACT TO PERMIT CERTAIN NONSTUDENTS TO RIDE ON SCHOOL BUSES IN YADKIN COUNTY.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Yadkin County Board of Education may permit the use of school buses to transport persons not otherwise entitled to use a bus who are enrolled in an Adult Developmental Activities Program designed to educate persons with special needs.

The Yadkin County Board of Education may permit the use and operation of buses as allowed by this act under rules and regulations it adopts.

The Adult Developmental Activities Program shall reimburse the Yadkin County Board of Education for any cost it incurs in transporting pupils pursuant to the provisions of this act. Reimbursement costs shall be determined pursuant to rules adopted by the State Board of Education.

For purposes of this act, a person with special needs is defined as any person who is mentally handicapped, without regard to age.

Sec. 2.  This act is effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 23rd day of May, 1985.