Uso de autobuses y vehículos escolares en distritos escolares de Minnesota

Explicación Simple

Los distritos escolares en Minnesota pueden usar ciertos autobuses para llevar estudiantes a actividades, pero no pueden tener autobuses nuevos después de 1998. Además, hay reglas sobre cómo deben ser estos autobuses. Esto asegura que los estudiantes viajen de manera segura.

Es como si una familia tuviera un auto viejo que solo pueden usar para llevar a sus hijos a la escuela, pero no pueden comprar un auto nuevo para eso.

Ejemplo Práctico

Imagina que la escuela secundaria de Juan tiene un autobús viejo que compraron antes de 1986. Usan este autobús solo para llevar a los estudiantes a un torneo de fútbol. Sin embargo, si quieren un autobús nuevo, no pueden comprarlo porque la ley lo prohíbe desde 1998.

Texto Original del Estatuto (Inglés)

(b) A motor coach acquired by a school district before March 26, 1986, may be used by it only to transport students participating in school activities, their instructors, and supporting personnel to and from school activities. A motor coach may not be outwardly equipped and identified as a school bus. A motor coach operated under this subdivision is not a school bus for purposes of section123B.92. The commissioner of education shall implement rules governing the equipment, identification, operation, inspection, and certification of motor coaches operated under this subdivision. (c) After January 1, 1998, a school district may not own or operate a motor coach for any purpose. Notwithstanding subdivision 1, a vehicle used to transport students under Public Law 99-425, the Head Start Act, may be equipped as a school bus or Head Start bus. Notwithstanding subdivision 1, a vehicle used to transport adults to and from a day activity center may be equipped with prewarning flashing amber signals and a stop-signal arm, and the operator of the vehicle may activate this equipment, under the following circumstances: (1) the operator possesses a commercial driver's license with a school bus endorsement; (2) the vehicle is engaged in picking up or dropping off adults at locations predesignated by the day activity center that owns or leases the bus;