13-30-1. Students eligible for transportation or board and room allowance. The following types of students who do not have access to bus service furnished by the school district to which they are assigned to and from school are entitled to a transportation or board and room allowance, provided in this chapter, paid by the district where the student has school residence or by the district where the student attends if the district is receiving tuition, regardless of the type or method of conveyance used for transportation:

(1) Any elementary student who attends an elementary school where the student is assigned and which is located more than five miles from the student's residence in either the same or any other school district;

(2) Any secondary student who attends a high school located in the same district where the student is a resident and is more than five miles from the student's residence, if the transportation of secondary students is authorized by the school district board;

(3) Any secondary student who resides in a district described in § 13-15-14 who attends a high school located more than five miles from the student's residence if the transportation of secondary students is authorized by the school district board.

A school district having a junior high school may provide mileage, bus service, or board and room for ninth grade junior high school students at the discretion of the school board. A school district choosing to provide transportation services to ninth grade junior high school students is not required, as a result of that choice, to provide these services to tenth, eleventh, or twelfth grade high school students.

Source: SDC 1939, §§ 15.3401, 15.3404; SL 1947, ch 74; SL 1949, ch 61, § 1; SL 1955, ch 41, ch 13, § 9; SL 1957, ch 73, § 4; SDC Supp 1960, § 15.3309; SL 1967, ch 47; SL 1975, ch 153; SL 1978, ch 115; SL 1982, ch 145; SL 1996, ch 110, § 20; SL 1997, ch 99, § 1.