- (a) Division of Public School Academic Facilities and Transportation inspectors shall inspect all buses and audit school district transportation systems annually, in compliance with the criteria contained in the Arkansas School Bus Inspection Handbook, which is Exhibit B to this part.
- (b) School districts shall self-inspect all of their buses on a semiannual basis, utilizing the criteria found in the handbook.
- (c) Division inspectors shall have the authority to take any school bus out of service that is determined to be out of compliance with established safety criteria, and to issue an “out of service” notice.
- (d) Each bus shall be issued an inspection sticker upon successfully passing inspection.
- (e) No school district shall operate any school bus declared “out of service” until all repairs required by the out-of-service notice have been completed and the bus is reinspected by a division school bus inspector.
- (f) If a school district operates any school bus in violation of subsection (e) of this section, any culpable officer or employee of the district may be subject to the sanction of Arkansas Code § 6-19-111(d).