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See sections C & D

ORC § 4511.75 Stopping for stopped school bus. (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, person attending programs offered by community boards of mental health and county boards of mental retardation and developmental disabilities, or child attending a program offered by a head start agency, 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, persons attending programs offered by community boards of mental health and county boards of mental retardation and developmental disabilities, or children attending programs offered by head start agencies. 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 or at buildings when children attending programs offered by head start agencies 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.

© 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, persons attending programs offered by community boards of mental health and county boards of mental retardation and developmental disabilities, or children attending programs offered by head start agencies. The driver of any vehicle, streetcar, or trackless trolley overtaking the school bus shall comply with division (A) of this section.

(D) School buses operating on divided highways or on highways with four or more traffic lanes shall receive and discharge all school children, persons attending programs offered by community boards of mental health and county boards of mental retardation and developmental disabilities, and children attending programs offered by head start agencies on their residence side of the highway.

(E) No school bus driver shall start the driver’s bus until after any child, person attending programs offered by community boards of mental health and county boards of mental retardation and developmental disabilities, or child attending a program offered by a head start agency who may have alighted therefrom has reached a place of safety on the child’s or person’s residence side of the road.

(F)(1) Whoever violates division (A) of this section may be fined an amount not to exceed five hundred dollars. A person who is issued a citation for a violation of division (A) of this section is not permitted to enter a written plea of guilty and waive the person’s right to contest the citation in a trial but instead must appear in person in the proper court to answer the charge

(2) In addition to and independent of any other penalty provided by law, the court or mayor may impose upon an offender who violates this section a class seven suspension of the offender’s driver’s license, commercial driver’s license, temporary instruction permit, probationary license, or nonresident operating privilege from the range specified in division (A)(7) of section 4510.02 of the Revised Code. When a license is suspended under this section, the court or mayor shall cause the offender to deliver the license to the court, and the court or clerk of the court immediately shall forward the license to the registrar of motor vehicles, together with notice of the court’s action.

(G) As used in this section: (1) “Head start agency” has the same meaning as in section 3301.32 of the Revised Code.

(2) “School bus,” as used in relation to children who attend a program offered by a head start agency, means a bus that is owned and operated by a head start agency, is equipped with an automatically extended stop warning sign of a type approved by the state board of education, is painted the color and displays the markings described in section 4511.77 of the Revised Code, and is equipped with amber and red visual signals meeting the requirements of section 4511.771 of the Revised Code, irrespective of whether or not the bus has fifteen or more children aboard at any time. “School bus” does not include a van owned and operated by a head start agency, irrespective of its color, lights, or markings.

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It's not a divided highway, it doesn't matter if there are 4 lanes. Ridiculous

if its more than a 2 lane road, school districts are required to design routes in order for children to be dropped off on the same side of the street

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Its 50 mph 4 lane road and I didn't see any kids trying to walk across the street.

read section D of what Conn-e-Rot posted. They're not allowed to drop them off in a location that requires crossing the street.

Scruit didn't do anything wrong.

***edit - Scruit did not violate any laws. If people want to tell him he's still "wrong," they can go right ahead. I would have proceeded just as he did.

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Can I have some of that popcorn?

This is a case where most people do not know the law. And some people will condemn to to the very bowels of hell for doing this - until they realize it is perfectly legal. And even then, some people who have committed to a vociferous condemnation don't have the moral strength to back down so they will argue "You should stop anyway!"

I am happy to see many folks here DO know the law.

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read section D of what Conn-e-Rot posted. They're not allowed to drop them off in a location that requires crossing the street.

Scruit didn't do anything wrong.

***edit - Scruit did not violate any laws. If people want to tell him he's still "wrong," they can go right ahead. I would have proceeded just as he did.

Without looking into it further. I agree.

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read section D of what Conn-e-Rot posted. They're not allowed to drop them off in a location that requires crossing the street.

Yea that's what I was thinking my dad told me about that and how u didn't have to stop. Lol he's a cpd

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According to the wrapper the Ohio license plates come in from the BMV, one does NOT have to stop for a stopped school bus IF traveling in the OPPOSITE direction on a four-or-more lane road.

That has been on every set of plates I've gotten for my work trucks for the last few years.

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My wife drives a school bus and you don't know how many times this happens.

4 lane highway no stoppie.

They just cameras installed in all the busses. 5 in total. one on the stop sign. LEO's are stricked with running red lights.

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My wife drives a school bus and you don't know how many times this happens.

4 lane highway no stoppie.

They just cameras installed in all the busses. 5 in total. one on the stop sign. LEO's are stricked with running red lights.

Can you repost that without autocorrect interfering, or when sober? :lol:

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