FILE:  GAMFC

HEALTH EXAMINATIONS

The Sabine Parish School Board authorizes the Superintendent to require any employee to have a physical and/or mental examination whenever the employee's condition warrants such action.  The physician shall be designated by the Superintendent, and the cost of the examination shall be paid by the School Board.

Prior to employment, the applicant recommended for a bus operator, and any other applicant as determined by the Superintendent, shall be required to take and successfully complete a health examination, verified by a certificate attesting freedom from communicable disease.  The physician conducting the examination shall be determined by the Superintendent or his/her designee, and the cost for the examination shall be paid by the School Board.  Such certificate shall be required for bus operators within five (5) days prior to the opening of school.

BUS OPERATORS

Prior to the opening of each school session, each employed school bus operator, regular or substitute, shall be required to complete a health examination, including a screening for tuberculosis, and to submit to the Superintendent a certificate from a licensed physician on forms furnished by the School Board, stating that the operator has been examined and is free from any ailment, disease, or defect that would adversely affect his/her ability to safely operate a school bus.  Such certificate should be submitted within five (5) days prior to the opening of school, and the cost of said examination shall be paid by the School Board.

Revised:  September 15, 2014

Ref:    42 USC 12101 et seq. (Title I, Americans With Disabilities Act)

La. Rev. Stat. Ann. §§17:81, 17:491, 17:491.2, 23:897

Board Minutes, 5-10-89, 9-15-14

Sabine Parish School Board