Veh. Code, § 12517 · Article 1. Persons Required to Be Licensed, Exemptions, and Age Limits
Veh. Code, § 12517
Text — As published in the Legislative Counsel's database, tables dated October 18, 2026 (pubinfo_2025.zip)
(a) (1) A person may not operate a schoolbus while transporting pupils unless that person has in his or her immediate possession a valid driver’s license for the appropriate class of vehicle to be driven endorsed for schoolbus and passenger transportation.
(2) When transporting one or more pupils at or below the 12th-grade level to or from a public or private school or to or from public or private school activities, the person described in paragraph (1) shall have in his or her immediate possession a certificate issued by the department to permit the operation of a schoolbus.
(b) A person may not operate a school pupil activity bus unless that person has in his or her immediate possession a valid driver’s license for the appropriate class of vehicle to be driven endorsed for passenger transportation. When transporting one or more pupils at or below the 12th-grade level to or from public or private school activities, the person shall also have in his or her immediate possession a certificate issued by the department to permit the operation of school pupil activity buses.
(c) The applicant for a certificate to operate a schoolbus or school pupil activity bus shall meet the eligibility and training requirements specified for schoolbus and school pupil activity busdrivers in this code, the Education Code, and regulations adopted by the Department of the California Highway Patrol, and, in addition to the fee authorized in Section 2427, shall pay a fee of twenty-five dollars ($25) with the application for issuance of an original certificate, and a fee of twelve dollars ($12) for the renewal of that certificate.
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History
Amended by Stats. 2006, Ch. 574, Sec. 7. Effective January 1, 2007.
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Provisions in this library that the text above cites, as it prints each citation. A range cited as “ss. 61.13-61.16” links its first and last provisions.
Vehicle Code
Cited by 17 provisions
Provisions in this library whose text cites Veh. Code, § 12517. Each shows the citation as that text prints it.
Education Code
- Ed. Code, § 40070Printed as Sections 12517 and 12519 of the Vehicle Code
- Ed. Code, § 40080Printed as Section 12517, 12519, or 12804.6 of the Vehicle Code
- Ed. Code, § 40081Printed as Sections 12517, 12519, and 12804.6 of the Vehicle Code
- Ed. Code, § 40084.5Printed as Sections 12517 and 12519 of the Vehicle Code
- Ed. Code, § 82322Printed as Section 12517 of the Vehicle Code
Vehicle Code
- Veh. Code, § 545.1Printed as Section 12517
- Veh. Code, § 545.5Printed as Section 12517
- Veh. Code, § 1804Printed as Section 2512, 12517, 12519, 12523, or 12523.5
- Veh. Code, § 1808.1Printed as Section 12517, 12519, 12520, 12523, 12523.5, or 12527
- Veh. Code, § 1808.8Printed as Section 12517, 12523, or 12523.5
- Veh. Code, § 12517.4Printed as Sections 12517, 12519, 12522, 12523, and 12523.5
- Veh. Code, § 12523.5Printed as Section 12517
- Veh. Code, § 12525Printed as Section 2512, 12517, 12519, 12523, or 12523.5
- Veh. Code, § 12804.6Printed as Section 12517
- Veh. Code, § 12810.5Printed as Section 12517, 12519, 12523, 12523.5, or 12527
- Veh. Code, § 15275.1Printed as Section 12517
- Veh. Code, § 40000.11Printed as Section 12517
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