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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>65363</law_id><section_number>22.1-182</section_number><catch_line>Use of school buses for public and commercial purposes</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="22.1">Education</unit><unit label="chapter" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="12">Pupil Transportation</unit><unit label="article" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="1">General Provisions</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>The <span class="dictionary">school board</span> of any school division may enter into agreements with any third-<span class="dictionary">party</span> logistics company, the <span class="dictionary">governing body</span> of any county, city, or town in the school division, any state agency, or any agency established or identified pursuant to P.L. 89-73 or any <span class="dictionary">law</span> amendatory or supplemental thereto providing for the use of the school buses of such school division by such third-<span class="dictionary">party</span> logistics company or agency or by <span class="dictionary">departments</span>, <span class="dictionary">boards</span>, commissions, or officers of such county, city, or town for public purposes, including transportation for the elderly, or private purposes, except that such third-<span class="dictionary">party</span> logistics company shall not use the school buses to provide transportation of passengers for compensation or for residential delivery of products for compensation. Each such agreement shall provide for reimbursing the <span class="dictionary">school board</span> in full for the proportionate share of any and all costs, both fixed and variable, of such buses incurred by such <span class="dictionary">school board</span> attributable to the use of such buses pursuant to such agreement. Each such agreement shall also require the third-<span class="dictionary">party</span> logistics company, <span class="dictionary">governing body</span>, state agency, or agency established or identified pursuant to P.L. 89-73 or any <span class="dictionary">law</span> amendatory or supplemental thereto to supply insurance on the school bus that meets the minimum coverage requirements in &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="When insurance required and amount thereof" href="/22.1-190/">22.1-190</a>. The third-<span class="dictionary">party</span> logistics company, <span class="dictionary">governing body</span>, state agency, or agency established or identified pursuant to P.L. 89-73 or any <span class="dictionary">law</span> amendatory or supplemental thereto shall indemnify and hold harmless the <span class="dictionary">school board</span> from any and all liability of the <span class="dictionary">school board</span> by virtue of use of such buses pursuant to an agreement authorized herein.</p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 22-151.2; 1973, c. 368; 1975, c. 633; 1980, c. 559; 2022, c. 241.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
