[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 45, Volume 4]
[Revised as of October 1, 2007]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 45CFR1310.12]

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                        TITLE 45--PUBLIC WELFARE
 
CHAPTER XIII--OFFICE OF HUMAN DEVELOPMENT SERVICES, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH 
                           AND HUMAN SERVICES
 
PART 1310_HEAD START TRANSPORTATION--Table of Contents
 
                  Subpart B_Transportation Requirements
 
Sec.  1310.12  Required use of School Buses or Allowable Alternate Vehicles.

    (a) Effective December 30, 2006, each agency providing 
transportation services must ensure that children enrolled in its 
program are transported in school buses or allowable alternate vehicles 
that are equipped for use of height- and weight-appropriate child 
restraint systems, and that have reverse beepers. As provided in 45 CFR

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1310.2(a), this paragraph does not apply to transportation services to 
children served under the home-based option for Head Start and Early 
Head Start.
    (b) Effective February 20, 2001, each Head Start and Early Head 
Start agency receiving permission from the responsible HHS official to 
purchase a vehicle with grant funds for use in providing transportation 
services to children in its program or a delegate agency's program must 
ensure that the funds are used to purchase a vehicle that is either a 
school bus or an allowable alternate vehicle and is equipped
    (1) for use of height- and weight-appropriate child restraint 
systems; and
    (2) with a reverse beeper.
    (c) As provided in 45 CFR 1310.2(a), paragraph (b) of this section 
does not apply to vehicles purchased for use in transporting children 
served under the home-based option for Head Start and Early Head Start.

[66 FR 5311, Jan. 18, 2001, as amended at 71 FR 58535, Oct. 4, 2006]