Title 17. Education

Chapter 1. General School Law

Part III. Public Schools and School Children

Subpart A. General Provisions

17:160     School bus operators under eighteen years of age prohibited; penalty

A. No person who is under eighteen years of age shall drive a school bus having therein children en route to or from school or a school function. 

B. No person shall employ, hire, or allow any person under eighteen years of age to drive a school bus carrying children en route to or from school or a school function. 

C. Whoever violates any provision of this Section shall be fined not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than five hundred dollars or imprisoned for not more than six months, or both. 

Amended by Acts 1958, No. 397, §§ 1 to 3; Acts 1972, No. 701, § 1; Acts 1989, No. 419, § 1, eff. June 30, 1989; Acts 2017, No. 335, § 1.