§ 19-252. Passing school busses prohibited.

Except as hereinafter provided, the driver of a vehicle upon any and all public streets and thoroughfares within the city upon meeting or overtaking from either direction any school bus which has stopped on the street for the purpose of receiving or discharging any school children shall stop the vehicle before reaching such school bus when there is in operation on said school bus to the front two (2) alternately flashing red lights located at the same level and to the rear, two (2) alternately flashing red lights located at the same level, and these lights shall have sufficient intensity to be visible at five hundred (500) feet in normal sunlight, and said driver shall not proceed until such school bus resumes motion or is signaled by the school bus driver to proceed or the visual signals are no longer actuated.

(Code 1959, § 38-44; Ord. No. 31666, § 1, 8-14-63; Ord. No. 42075, § 3, 4-12-73)

State law reference

Similar provisions, Vernon's Ann. Civ. St. art. 6701d, § 104(a).