In addition to the requirements of 49 CFR 391.41, as amended, a school bus driver shall drive a school bus only on days when he or she has:
- (1) Enough physical strength to handle the bus with ease.
- (2) Full and sufficient use of both hands and feet, unless a qualified physician states that the lack of such use is not a handicap to the school bus driver.
- (3) Freedom from a communicable disease of extraordinary nature.
- (4) Freedom from any disease or injury which impairs the ability to drive.
- (5) Freedom from the use of medication which may impair ability to drive.
- (6) Freedom from the effects of alcohol and other drugs.
- (7) Freedom from mental, nervous, organic, or functional disease, likely to interfere with safe driving.
(Effective August 19, 1974; Amended June 28, 2010)