A. The "state transportation division" is created within the department of education [public education department].

B. The state superintendent [secretary] shall appoint a director of the state transportation division to be known as the "state transportation director".

C. The state board [department] may delegate to the state superintendent [secretary] its administrative functions relating to public school transportation.

History: 1953 Comp., § 77-14-1, enacted by Laws 1967, ch. 16, § 219; 1995, ch. 208, § 4.

Bracketed material. — The bracketed material was inserted by the compiler and is not part of the law.

Laws 2004, ch. 25, § 27, provided that all references to the superintendent of public instruction shall be deemed references to the secretary of public education and all references to the former state board of education or state department of education shall be deemed references to the public education department. See 9-24-15 NMSA 1978.

Cross references. — For emergency transportation, see 22-17-1 NMSA 1978 et seq.

For divisions of the public education department, see 9-24-4 NMSA 1978.

The 1995 amendment, effective July 1, 1995, deleted "With approval of the state board" from the beginning of Subsection B, and substituted "Superintendent" for "transportation division" in Subsection C.

Am. Jur. 2d, A.L.R. and C.J.S. references. — 68 Am. Jur. 2d Schools §§ 263 to 269.

One transporting children to or from school as independent contractor, 66 A.L.R. 724.

Constitutionality of statute providing school-bus service for pupils of parochial or private schools, 168 A.L.R. 1434.

Buses: constitutionality, under state constitutional provision forbidding financial aid to religious sects, of public provision of school bus service for private school pupils, 41 A.L.R.3d 344.

78 C.J.S. Schools and School Districts § 7.