§ 3635-b. Authorization to provide pupil transportation in child\nsafety zones. 1. This section shall apply where the board of education\nor trustees of a common, central, central high school, union free school\ndistrict, or city school district of a city with less than one hundred\ntwenty-five thousand inhabitants adopts a resolution to make\ntransportation in child safety zones available to resident pupils for a\nparticular school year. Such resolution shall continue in effect for\nsubsequent school years until the board adopts a resolution providing\notherwise.\n 2. A board of education or board of trustees is authorized to adopt a\nresolution providing for pupil transportation in child safety zones,\nwhere applicable, of a proposition to expend money for such\ntransportation presented pursuant to the provisions of subdivision\nnineteen of section two thousand twenty-one and section two thousand\ntwenty-two of this chapter. Such transportation may be provided without\nregard to like circumstances based solely upon the fact that the pupil\nresides within two miles, in the case of a pupil in grade kindergarten\nthrough eight, and within three miles, in the case of a pupil in grade\nnine through twelve, from the school such pupil legally attends,\nnotwithstanding the provisions of section thirty-six hundred thirty-five\nof this article. Such transportation may be provided upon the\ndetermination by the board that a hazardous zone exists which in the\nopinion of the board would be reasonably alleviated by the establishment\nof a child safety zone. For purposes of this section, child safety zone\nmeans a designated area of a school district, including at least one\npersonal residence, within which children who reside at a lesser\ndistance from the school they legally attend than the minimum\ntransportation limit of the district will be provided transportation on\nthe basis that their most direct walking route to school will traverse a\nhazardous zone.\n 3. The commissioner of transportation shall establish regulations for\ndetermination of a hazardous zone including, but not limited to, such\nfactors as the existence or nonexistence of sidewalks or walkways, the\ntype of road surface, width of road, footpath or sidewalk, the volume\nand average speed of traffic, density of population, violent crime\nstatistics, density of vacant buildings or structures, the commercial,\nindustrial or residential character of the area and the existence or\nnonexistence of traffic safety features such as traffic lights, street\nlights and traffic patrols. In preparing such regulations, the\ncommissioner of transportation shall consult with the commissioners of\neducation and motor vehicles and representatives from the state police\nwho have traffic safety responsibilities. Such regulations shall be used\nby boards of education in determining whether a hazardous zone exists.\n 4. The board of education of any school district shall, upon written\npetition of a parent or other person in parental relation of a child\nresiding within such district or of any representative authorized by\nsuch parent or other person in parental relation, signed by twenty-five\nqualified voters of the district or five percent of the number of voters\nwho voted in the previous annual election of the members of the board of\neducation, whichever is greater, make an investigation to determine\nwhether a hazardous zone exists requiring the establishment of a child\nsafety zone. Petitions shall specify the geographic boundaries\ncomprising the proposed hazardous zone and any child safety zone\nrequested. Petitions and/or additional written requests from individual\nparents or persons in parental relation requesting designation of an\narea as a child safety zone in conjunction with any proposed or existing\nhazardous zone may be submitted provided that such petitions and/or\nrequests shall not be submitted later than the first day of March\npreceding the school year for whic
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