15-922. Duties of the school district; definition

A. Each school district shall within twelve days after the first one hundred days or two hundred days in session, as applicable, certify to the superintendent of public instruction, in an electronic format as prescribed by the department of education, the following:

1. The daily route mileage of the school district in the current year. The route mileage shall not include more than twenty miles each way to and from the school of attendance or to and from a pickup point on a regular transportation route to transport eligible students who reside in nonadjacent school districts.

2. The route mileage of the school district in the current year transporting eligible students for extended school year services in accordance with section 15-881.

3. The number of eligible students transported during the current year.

B. A school district shall meet the requirements of this section to receive state aid. The superintendent of public instruction may withhold a school district's apportionment of state aid if it is determined by the superintendent of public instruction that the school district is not complying with the requirements of this section. A school district may include in the calculation of daily route mileage any vehicle that meets the definition of a school bus prescribed in this section. The department of education shall not deny transportation funding or state aid for a school district that transports pupils in any vehicle that meets the definition of a school bus prescribed in this section.

C. For the purposes of this article and section 15-901, " school bus" or " bus" means a school bus as defined in section 28-101, except that the passenger capacity standards prescribed in that section do not apply.