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Section 4511.75
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General Assembly: 115.
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Bill Number: Amended House Bill 478
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Effective Date: 3-28-85
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| (A) The driver of a vehicle, streetcar, or trackless trolley upon meeting
or overtaking from either direction any school bus stopped for the purpose of receiving or
discharging any school child or person attending programs offered by community boards of
mental health and county boards of mental retardation and developmental disabilities shall
stop at least ten feet from the front or rear of the school bus and shall not proceed
until such school bus resumes motion, or until signaled by the school bus driver to
proceed. |
| It is no defense to a charge under this division that the school bus
involved failed to display or be equipped with an automatically extended stop warning sign
as required by division (B) of this section. |
| (B) Every school bus shall be equipped with amber and red visual signals
meeting the requirements of section 4511.771 of the Revised Code, and an automatically
extended stop warning sign of a type approved by the state board of education, which shall
be actuated by the driver of the bus whenever but only whenever the bus is stopped or
stopping on the roadway for the purpose of receiving or discharging school children or
persons attending programs offered by community boards of mental health and county boards
of mental retardation and developmental disabilities. A school bus driver shall not
actuate the visual signals or the stop warning sign in designated school bus loading areas
where the bus is entirely off the roadway or at school buildings when children or persons
attending programs offered by community boards of mental health and county boards of
mental retardation and developmental disabilities are loading or unloading at curbside.
The visual signals and stop warning sign shall be synchronized or otherwise operated as
required by rule of the board. |
(C) Where a highway has been divided into four or more traffic
lanes, a driver of a vehicle, streetcar, or trackless trolley need not stop for a school
bus approaching from the opposite direction which has stopped for the purpose of receiving
or discharging any school child or persons attending programs offered by community boards
of mental health and county boards of mental retardation and developmental disabilities.
The driver of any vehicle, streetcar, or trackless trolley overtaking the school bus shall
comply with division (A) of this section.
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(D) School buses operating on divided highways or on highways
with four or more traffic lanes shall receive and discharge all school children or persons
attending programs offered by community boards of mental health and county boards of
mental retardation and developmental disabilities on their residence side of the highway.
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| (E) No school bus driver shall start his bus until after any child or
person attending programs offered by community boards of mental health and county boards
of mental retardation and developmental disabilities who may have alighted therefrom has
reached a place of safety on his residence side of the road. |
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Hamilton
County Engineer