Any officer, agent, or employee of a school district, or any other person knowingly operating, or permitting or directing the operation of a schoolbus in violation of any regulation or order of the Department of the California Highway Patrol, and any person knowingly operating a schoolbus without possessing the qualifications required by the Department of the California Highway Patrol for schoolbus operators, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

(Added by Stats. 1999, Ch. 646, Sec. 14. Effective January 1, 2000.)