The driver of a vehicle overtaking or meeting a school bus in the city which has stopped and is displaying two alternately flashing red lights located at the same level shall bring the vehicle to a full stop not less than ten feet from the school bus and shall not proceed until the school bus resumes motion or the visual signals are no longer actuated. The driver of the school bus, before resuming motion, shall deactivate flashing lights and permit stopped traffic to proceed and shall, when resuming motion, proceed in a manner which will allow congested traffic to disperse by keeping the bus as near to the right side of the street or road as can be done with safety. Passengers crossing the street or road upon being discharged from a school bus shall cross in front of the stopped school bus. At an intersection where traffic is controlled by an officer or a traffic stop-and-go signal, a vehicle need not be brought to a full stop before passing a stopped school bus, but may proceed past the school bus at a speed not greater than is reasonable and proper, but not greater than ten mph and with due caution for the safety of passengers being received or discharged from the school bus. This section shall also be applicable to a school bus transporting passengers on a boundary street or road in the city. This subchapter shall be enforceable when signs giving notice of this subchapter are posted upon or at the entrance to the city as may be most appropriate or sufficiently legible as to be seen by an ordinarily observant person. The driver of a vehicle who fails to stop for a school bus as required by this subchapter, who passes a school bus in violation of this subchapter, or who fails to stop for a school bus in violation of this subchapter, is guilty of a misdemeanor.
(Prior Code, § 35-83) (Ord. 783, passed 6-3-1985)