(A) A person who operates a vehicle that:
(1) Meets or overtakes from any direction a school bus stopped on a roadway and is not stopped before reaching the school bus when the arm signal device, as specified in IC 20-9.1-5-14 or a successor statute, is in the extended position; or
(2) Proceeds before the arm signal device is no longer extended; Commits the offense of illegally passing a school bus.
(B) This section is applicable only if the school bus is in substantial compliance with the markings required by the state school bus committee.
(C) There is a rebuttable presumption that the owner of the vehicle involved in the violation of this section committed the violation. This presumption does not apply to the owner of a vehicle involved in the violation of this section if the owner routinely engages in the business of renting the vehicle for periods of 30 days or less.
(Ord. 20, 2008, passed 11-3-08)
Editor’s note:
IC 20-9.1-5-14 was repealed by P.L. 1-2005, Sec. 240.
Statutory reference:
Similar provisions, see IC 9-21-12-1