NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1965 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 1095

HOUSE BILL 945

 

 

AN ACT TO REPEAL G.S. 115-181.1 RELATING TO SCHOOL BUS TRANSPORTATION WITHIN THE CORPORATE LIMITS OF A MUNICIPALITY IN WHICH IS LOCATED A PUBLIC SCHOOL.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1.  Article 22 of Chapter 115 of the General Statutes of North Carolina, as the same appears in the 1963 Cumulative Supplement to Volume 3A, is amended by repealing G.S. 115-181.1, in its entirety.

Sec. 2.  Article 22 of Chapter 115 is further amended by deleting G.S. 115-186 (b) in its entirety, and substituting in lieu thereof a new paragraph, to be designated G.S. 115-186 (b), and to read as follows:

"Unless road or other conditions shall make it inadvisable to do so, public school buses shall be so routed on State-maintained highways that the school bus, to which such pupil is assigned, shall pass within one mile of the residence of each pupil, who lives one and one-half miles or more from the school to which such pupil is assigned."

Sec. 3.  Article 22 of Chapter 115 is further amended by adding a new paragraph at the end thereof, to be designated (e), and to read as follows:

"No provision of this subchapter shall be construed to place upon the State, or upon any county or city, any duty to supply any funds for the transportation of pupils, or any duty to supply funds for the transportation of pupils who live within the corporate limits of the city or town in which is located the public school in which such pupil is enrolled or to which such pupil is assigned, even though transportation to or from such school is furnished to pupils who live outside the limits of such city or town."

Sec. 4.  Article 22 of Chapter 115 is further amended by adding a new paragraph immediately following G.S. 115-190, which shall be designated G.S. 115-190.1, and which shall read as follows:

"Transportation continued for area annexed to municipality. In each and every area of the State where school bus transportation of pupils to and from school is now being provided, such school transportation shall not be discontinued by any State or local governmental agency for the sole reason that the corporate limits of any municipality have been extended to include such area since February 6, 1957, and school bus transportation of pupils shall be continued in the same manner and to the same extent as if such area had not been included within the corporate limits of a municipality."

Sec. 5.  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 6.  This Act shall become effective July 1, 1965.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 16th day of June, 1965.