2011 Louisiana Laws
Revised Statutes
TITLE 17 — Education
RS 17:492 — Probation and tenure of bus operators

§492. Probation and tenure of bus operators

Each school bus operator shall serve a probationary term of three years reckoned from the date of his first employment in the parish in which the operator is serving his probation. During the probationary term the parish school board may dismiss or discharge any operator upon the written recommendation of the parish superintendent of schools accompanied by valid reasons therefor.

Any school bus operator found unsatisfactory by the parish school board at the expiration of the probationary term shall be notified in writing by the board that he has been discharged or dismissed; in the absence of such notification such probationary school bus operator shall automatically become a regular and permanent operator in the employ of the school board of the parish in which he has successfully served his probationary term; provided that all school bus operators in the employ of any parish school board on July 26, 1944, and who have served satisfactorily as school bus operators for more than three consecutive years and who shall be employed for the school term of 1944-45, are declared to be regular and permanent school bus operators in the employ of the school board of that parish.

In order to acquire tenure under the provisions hereof, each school bus operator shall personally operate and drive the school bus he is employed to operate; no one shall acquire tenure in the operation of more than one school bus.