CHAPTER 604

An Act to amend and reenact § 22-276.1 of the Code of Virginia, to provide
what persons shall not be employed as school bus operators in certain

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Approved April 5, 1966

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

7 That § 22-276.1 of the Code of Virginia be amended and reenacted as
ollows:

§ 22-276.1. No school board or superintendent of schools of any
county or city shall hire, employ, or enter into any agreement with any
person for the purposes of operating a school bus transporting pupils after

uly first, nineteen hundred sixty-two, unless the person proposed to 80
operate such school bus shall:

(a) Furnish a certificate signed by a physician licensed by this State
attesting that such physician has examined the applicant within the thirty
days preceding the date of the application for such employment and that
applicant has no symptoms of hypertension, cardiac disease, diabetes,
epilepsy, paralysis of any type, and is otherwise, from the observation of
nue physician, physically and mentally capable of operating a school bus

y.

As used in this paragraph “physically able’ means having two hands,
two feet, two eyes, the normal use of the foregoing, normal hearing, to wit,
the ability to hear the spoken voice from a distance of fifteen feet with each
ear separately, visual acuity, to wit, minimal vision of 20/70 in each eye
separately with a minimal binocular vision corrected to 20/40 and normal
visual fields and normal color perception ;

(b) Furnish a statement from the Division of Motor Vehicles that
the records of such Division do not disclose that the applicant, within the
preceding five years, has been convicted upon a charge of either driving
under the influence of intoxicating liquors or drugs, or a felony.*

(c) Furnish a statement signed by two reputable citizens of the
county or city that applicant is a person of good moral character.

Exhibit a license showing the applicant has successfully under-
taken the examination prescribed by § 46.1-370.

(e) Be between the ages of sixteen and sixty-five years, both inclu-
sive, at the time of signing such contract.

(f) Exhibit upon request of any school board or superintendent of
schools of any county, city or town constituting a special school district,
a certificate showing that the applicant has successfully completed the
American National Red Cross First Aid Course.

The statements above required shall be filed with, and made a part of,
the records of the superintendent of schools and/or school boards of the
county or city employing such person as a school bus operator.

The State Department of Education shall prescribe and furnish to the
several superintendents of schools throughout the State the necessary
forms to be used by applicants in furnishing the information required by
this section; insofar as A gins such forms shall be designed as to
limit paper work, avoid the possibility of mistake, and furnish all parties
involved with a complete and accurate record of the information required.
The State Department of Education shall seek the advice of the Medica]
Society of Virginia in the preparation of such forms.