§ 420.05. STOPPING FOR SCHOOL BUSES; ACTUATING VISUAL SIGNALS; DISCHARGING CHILDREN.

(a)

The driver of a vehicle overtaking or meeting a school bus, which has stopped and is displaying two alternatively 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 bus resumes motion or the visual signals are no longer activated. 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 road as can safely be done. Passengers crossing the 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 miles an hour, and with due caution for the safety of passengers being received by or discharged from the school bus.

(b)

In a proceeding for a violation of subsection (a) hereof, proof that the particular vehicle described in a citation, complaint or warrant was in violation of subsection (a) hereof, together with proof that the defendant named in the citation, complaint or warrant was, at the time of the violation, the registered owner of the vehicle, shall constitute in evidence a presumption that the registered owner of the vehicle was the driver of the vehicle at the time of the violation.

(Ord. 164. Passed 12-8-86.)