1.    Subject to legislative appropriation, the superintendent of public instruction shall pay each school district transporting students to and from schools in other school districts, to and from area career and technology centers, and to and from schools within the district for career and technical education courses offered through cooperative arrangements approved by the state board for career and technical education:

Terms Used In North Dakota Code 15.1-27-28.1

  • Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
  • State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See North Dakota Code 1-01-49

a.    The amount provided in section 15.1-27-26.1 for vehicles that have a capacity of fewer than ten students if the school district is transporting fewer than ten students per vehicle; b.    The amount provided in section 15.1-27-26.1 for vehicles that have a capacity of ten or more students if the school district is transporting ten or more students per vehicle; and

c.    The additional amount provided in section 15.1-27-26.1, per one-way trip, for each student transported.

    2.    Subject to legislative appropriation, a school district entitled to payments under this section is entitled to receive transportation aid for all miles [kilometers] traveled and for all students transported, regardless of whether the students transported live within the incorporated limits of the city in which the students’ school is located.

3.    Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the superintendent of public instruction, upon request from the school district, shall make the payments due to a school district under this section directly to an area career and technology center.