Section 4 AAC 27.990 - DefinitionsIn AS 14.09 and this chapter, unless the context requires otherwise,
(1) "activity bus" means a bus owned, leased, or contracted by a district and regularly used to transport pupils on field trips, athletic trips, and extracurricular and other non-instructional activities;(2) "attendance center" means the neighborhood school within a district to which a pupil is to be transported for educational purposes;(3) "bus route" or "route" (A) means the shortest distance necessary to transport a given group of pupils from a pickup point nearest their homes to their attendance center and back;(B) does not include the distance from where a transportation vehicle is garaged to the start of its route;(4) "commissioner" means the commissioner of education and early development or the commissioner's designee;(5) "duplicate mileage" means any portion of a route that travels both directions on the same street or roadway;(6) "eligible expenditure" (A) means only a cost associated with operating the basic to- and from-school transportation services;(B) includes direct administrative and staff salaries and benefits, contracted services, supplies, and equipment;(7) "IEP" means an individualized education program as set out in AS 14.30.278 and 4 AAC 52.140;(8) "optional equipment" means any equipment not required in the most current edition of the minimum standards for Alaska school buses adopted by reference under 4 AAC 27.110;(9) "pupil" means a person eligible under the laws of this state for free public education and who is attending school;(10) "school bus" means a type of bus specially designed and manufactured for the transporting of pupils to and from school and school events;(11) "school district" or "district" includes borough and city school districts and regional educational attendance areas;(12) "spare buses" means those buses used by a district for to- and from-school transportation services in the event of a mechanical failure in the primary bus fleet;(13) "to- and from-school transportation services" means transporting a pupil from the pupil's pick up point to and from school on regular scheduled school days.Eff. 5/30/71, Register 38; am 9/14/77, Register 63; am 7/8/99, Register 151; am 7/23/99, Register 151; am 6/4/2004, Register 170; am 7/25/2014, Register 211As of Register 109, 4 AAC 27.120 was renumbered as 4 AAC 27.990. The history note for 4 AAC 27.990 contains the history of this section under its former number.
As of Register 151 (October 1999), the regulations attorney made technical revisions under AS 44.62.125(b)(6) to reflect the name change of the Department of Education to the Department of Education and Early Development made by ch. 58, SLA 1999, and the corresponding title change of the commissioner of education.
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