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1951 Op. Mo. Att'y Gen. 1 (1951)

handle is hein.sag/sagmo0101 and id is 1 raw text is: SCEDDLS: 'erbon who has contracteEI 4 transport school children to and from school not excused from supplying said transportation due to bad weather conditions, January 2, 1991 Honorable James L, Paul Prosecuting Attorney McDonald County Pineville, Missouri 6 De7a r Sir . your letter at han requestin an opinion of this department, which, in part, reada 'Where a school district employs and hires a private individual to furnish transportation for the students attend- ing that particular school, said busses to travel over a designated route, what is the responsibility of the person so employed to furnish transportation, to pick up or deliver the child at its designated place of pick up and de- livery, where, because of high water, sleet, ice, or snow, that it is im- practical for the person furnishing the transportation to follow the designated routeg At th.e outset, we observe that your question relates to the responsibility of a person employed to furnish transporta- tion to pick up or deliver children at designated places where, because of the elements as you have set out, it is impractical for him to do so, and the facts which you relate do not indi- cate that it is entirely impossible for the person so employed to follow the designated route in furnishing such transportation. It is possible that your question presents more of a practical one which might be worked out between the school board and bus driver, with the aid of the county superintendent of schools. While you do not state what type of school district is involved in the particular situation we call your attention to Section 10327-a, Laws of 7issouri, 1947, Vol. 1, page 497, which provides for the solving of transportation problems in connection with common school districts, and, in part, readas Digitized from Best Copy Available