§ 35-809. School buses.

(a)

Every school bus, in addition to any other equipment and distinctive markings required by this chapter:

(1)

Shall be equipped with signal lamps mounted as high and as widely spaced laterally as practicable, which shall display to the front two alternately flashing red lights located at the same level and to the rear two alternately flashing red lights located at the same level, and these lights shall be visible at 500 feet in normal sunlight; and

(2)

Every new school bus put into initial service after July 1, 2007, shall be equipped with a white flashing strobe light mounted on the roof of such bus to afford optimum visibility.

(b)

Any school bus, in addition to the lights required by subsection (a) of this section, may be equipped with:

(1)

Yellow signal lamps mounted near each of the four red lamps and at the same level but closer to the vertical centerline of the bus, which shall display two alternately flashing yellow lights to the front and two alternately flashing yellow lights to the rear, and these lights shall be visible at 500 feet in normal sunlight. These lights shall be displayed by the school bus driver at least 200 feet but not more than 1,000 feet before every stop at which the alternately flashing red lights required by subsection (a) of this section will be actuated; or

(2)

Head lamps that alternately flash on low beam or simultaneously flash on low beam, except such head lamps shall only be activated during daylight hours.

(c)

The provisions of subsections (a) and (b) of this section shall be subject to the provisions contained in K.S.A. 8-2009a.

(d)

Any person who purchases a motor vehicle which was operated by the seller as a school bus is hereby required to repaint such vehicle a color other than yellow and, except when such bus is being used as a church bus or day care program bus, disassemble and remove the "stop arm" and disconnect all flashing or rotating warning lights on such vehicle before it is operated on the public highways of this state for any purpose other than those set forth in the definitions of a school bus.

(Code 1964, § 36-257(1)—(4); Code 1988, § 35-710; Ord. No. 53410, § 1, 1-7-1975; Ord. No. 53976, § 12, 7-22-1975; Ord. No. 55191, § 9, 8-3-1976; Ord. No. 58345, § 9, 7-27-1978; Ord. No. 61738, § 4, 7-31-1980; Ord. No. O-2-05, § 18, 1-6-2005; Ord. No. O-49-15 , § 1, 8-13-2015)

State law reference

Similar provisions, K.S.A. 8-1730, 72-8313.