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ORDINANCE NO. 74- 2701
AN ORDINANCE REQUIRING DRIVERS OF MOTOR
VEHICLES -'-,TO STOP WHEN APPROACHING A -STOPPED
SCHOOL BUS AND-REGULATING`THE USE OF PASS-
ENGER VEHICLES.USED'AS'-'SCHOOL BUSES.
BE_IT ENACTED,BY.THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE
CITY OF IOWA CITY., IOWA.
SECTION I PURPOSE.: The purpose of this Ordinance is to
provide for the health, safety and .welfare of the citizens of
Iowa City, Iowa, by requiring drivers of motor vehicles to
stop when approaching a stopped school bus, and regulating the
' use of passenger vehicles as school buses
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SECTION II DEFINITION. The following definition shall
apply to this Ordinance:
"School bus" means every. -vehicle operated for the trans-
portation of children to,or from school, except vehicles which
are: a. privately owned and not operated for compensation,
b. used exclusively in the.transportation of the children in
the immediate family of the driver, C. operated by a munici-
pality or privately owned urban transit company for the
transportation of children:as,''part of or in addition to their
regularly scheduled service, 'or d. designed to carry not more
than nine (9) persons as, passengers.' either school owned or
privately owned, which are used to -transport pupils to acti-
vity events in` =which the, _pupils are participants or used to
transport pupils to their homes in case of illness or other
emergency situations. The vehicles operated under the provi-
sions of paragraph d of the section shall be operated by
employees of the school district who are specifically approved
by the local superintendent of schools for the assignment.
SECTION III REQUIRING MOTOR VEHICLES TO STOP. The driver
of any vehicle when meeting a school. bus on which the amber
warning lambs are flashing, shall reduce the speed of said
vehicle to not more than 20 m.p.h. and shall bring said vehicle to a complete stop
when school bus stops and stop signal arm is extended and said vehicle shall remain
stopped until stop arm is retracted after which driver may proceed with due caution
The driver of any vehicle overtaking a school bus should not pass the school bus
when red or amber signal lights are flashing and shall bring said vehicle to a
complete stop not closer than fifteen (15) feet of the school bus when it is
stopped and stop arm is extended, and shall remain stopped until the stop arm
is retracted and school bus resumes motion or until signaled by the driver to
proceed.
SECTION 1V PASSENGER VEHICLES USED AS SCHOOL BUSES.
A. Vehicles other than school buses operated regularly for Transportation
of children to or from school must comply with safety standards for such vehicles
adopted by the state board of public instruction.
B. Vehicles other than school buses operated regularly for Transportation
of children to or from school may not stop on the travelled portion of the high-
way. Such vehicles must step to load or unload passengers off the highway unless
such vehicle has complete school bus equipment as defined by the state board of
public instruction.
SECTION V REPEALER.
All other Ordinances or parts of Ordinances in conflict with the provisions of
this Ordinance are hereby repealed,
SECTION V1 SAVINGS CLAUSE,
In the event any section, provision or part of this -Ordinance shall be adjudged
by any court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid or unconstitutional, such
adjudication shall not affect the validity of the Ordinance as a whole, or any
section, provision or part thereof not adjudged invalid or unconstitutional.
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Ordinance No. 74-'2701
SECTION VII
EFFECTIVE DATE. This Ordinance shall
be in
effect after �Ta2e
1, _1974, --approval
and
publication
as
required by law.
It was moved
by Brandt and seconded
by
deProsse
that;the Ordinance
as read be
adopted,
and upon roll call there were:
AYES: NAYS:
ABSENT:
X
Brandt
X
-Czarnecki
X
deProsse
X
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XXX
Davidsen
X
-
White
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ATTEST-:
City Clerk 1�
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