Idaho Bills

Repeals and adds to existing law to provide for school safety patrols, to provide that it is unlawful for a vehicle operator to disregard directions from a school safety patrol member, and to provide for the reporting of violations.

Title 33, Chapter 18 (School Safety Patrols) authorizes Boards of Trustees to appoint school safety patrols from the student body for directing traffic at school crossings and makes it unlawful for drivers to disregard the reasonable directions from these individuals. Much of the language in this Chapter is outdated. Additionally, Boards of Trustees have the ability to create safety patrols without this specific authority through their responsibility for the management of the school district. The proposed legislation would repeal the Chapter and move the language specific to the disobeying school safety patrol directions to Chapter 6, Title 49 (Rules of the Road, Motor Vehicles), which already contains language pertaining to school zones.