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Chapter 11. Transportation Costs
IC 20-27-11-1
Transportation cost; nonpublic school student
Sec. 1. (a) If a student who attends a nonpublic school in a school
corporation resides on or along the highway constituting the regular
route of a public school bus, the governing body of the school
corporation shall provide transportation for the nonpublic school
student on the school bus.
(b) The transportation provided under this section must be from
the home of the nonpublic school student or from a point on the
regular route nearest or most easily accessible to the home of the
nonpublic school student to and from the nonpublic school or to and
from the point on the regular route that is nearest or most easily
accessible to the nonpublic school.
As added by P.L.1-2005, SEC.11.
IC 20-27-11-2
Transportation cost; student living on state owned property
Sec. 2. (a) Except as provided in subsection (b), a student who
resides on state owned property and attends a public school away
from the student's residence shall be furnished transportation in a
public school bus to and from the student's residence and the public
school the student attends. Expenses for the transportation shall be
paid out of the state general fund, without further appropriation, on
allowance by the state superintendent.
(b) This section does not apply to students who reside on property
owned by Indiana University, Purdue University, Ball State
University, or Indiana State University.
As added by P.L.1-2005, SEC.11.
IC 20-27-11-3
Transportation cost; high school student
Sec. 3. (a) If a school corporation does not maintain or operate a
high school and a high school student who resides in the school
corporation is transferred to attend a high school in a contiguous
school corporation, the governing bodies of the school corporations
may enter into an agreement for the transportation of the student.
(b) The agreement under subsection (a) must specify that the
transportation shall be provided by the receiving school corporation
and that the costs of transportation shall be paid by the transferring
school corporation out of the school corporation's special school
funds. The costs of transportation shall be calculated from the per
capita cost for each student transported and shall be mutually agreed
upon by both governing bodies. Payment of transportation charges
shall be made at the same time and in the same manner as payments
of transfer tuition are made for transferred students.
As added by P.L.1-2005, SEC.11.
IC 20-27-11-4
Transportation cost; contracts
Sec. 4. The governing body of a school corporation that transfers
a student to another school corporation may contract with the
receiving corporation for the provision of transportation costs for the
transferred student.
As added by P.L.1-2005, SEC.11.
