A. The director may adopt standards and specifications applicable to lighting equipment on and special warning devices to be carried by school buses consistent with and supplemental to this article. The standards and specifications may designate and permit the use of alternately flashing warning signal lights on school buses for the purpose of indicating when children are boarding or alighting from a school bus. The standards and specifications shall correlate with and, as far as possible, conform to the current specifications as approved by the society of automotive engineers.

Terms Used In Arizona Laws 28-930

  • Board: means the transportation board. See Arizona Laws 28-101
  • Bus: means a motor vehicle designed for carrying sixteen or more passengers, including the driver. See Arizona Laws 28-101
  • Director: means the director of the department of transportation. See Arizona Laws 28-101
  • highway: means the entire width between the boundary lines of every way if a part of the way is open to the use of the public for purposes of vehicular travel. See Arizona Laws 28-101
  • Operator: means a person who drives a motor vehicle on a highway, who is in actual physical control of a motor vehicle on a highway or who is exercising control over or steering a vehicle being towed by a motor vehicle. See Arizona Laws 28-101
  • Person: includes a corporation, company, partnership, firm, association or society, as well as a natural person. See Arizona Laws 1-215
  • School bus: means a motor vehicle that is designed for carrying more than ten passengers and that is either:

    (a) Owned by any public or governmental agency or other institution and operated for the transportation of children to or from home or school on a regularly scheduled basis. See Arizona Laws 28-101

B. A person shall operate an alternately flashing warning signal light on any school bus when the school bus is a minimum of one hundred feet from a stop or is stopped on a highway for the purpose of permitting school children to board or alight from it.

C. A school bus may be equipped with alternately flashing red strobe lamps on the octagonal signal manually operated by the school bus operator pursuant to section 28-857, subsection D.