TITLE 33

EDUCATION

CHAPTER 17

DRIVER TRAINING COURSES

33-1702.  Minimum standards for courses. (1) The state board of education and the transportation department shall cooperate in establishing, and amending as need arises, minimum standards for driver training programs reimbursable hereunder.

(2)  Such standards shall require not less than thirty (30) clock hours of classroom instruction, six (6) hours observation time in a driver training car, and six (6) hours behind-the-wheel practice driving; but the state board of education may allow in lieu of not more than three (3) hours of such practice driving, such equivalent thereof in simulated practice driving as the said board may have, by uniform rules, approved. The board shall adopt standards necessary to allow completion of the thirty (30) clock hours of required classroom instruction through an approved correspondence course.

History:

[33-1702, added 1963, ch. 13, sec. 166, p. 27; am. 1994, ch. 347, sec. 1, p. 1098; am. 1997, ch. 41, sec. 1, p. 77; am. 1998, ch. 110, sec. 3, p. 380; am. 2000, ch. 214, sec. 1, p. 584; am. 2004, ch. 223, sec. 1, p. 664.]