20-1-408. School safety patrols. (1) The trustees of any district or the administration of any private school may organize and supervise school safety patrols for a school under their authority. The purpose of school safety patrols is to influence and encourage other pupils of the school to refrain from crossing public highways at points other than regular crossings and to direct pupils as to when and where to cross highways.
     (2) The school safety patrol shall be formed from the children of the school who are 9 years of age or more or, if there are none, who are of the highest grade of such school. Before any child may serve on the school safety patrol, the parent or guardian of such child shall give written consent for his child to serve on the school safety patrol.
     (3) No liability attaches to a member of the school safety patrol or parent or guardian by virtue of the organization, maintenance, or operation of such school safety patrol because of injury sustained by any pupil.
     (4) Identification and operation of school safety patrols shall be uniform throughout the state, and the method of identification and signals to be used shall be as prescribed by the superintendent of public instruction in cooperation with the Montana department of justice.
     (5) Any municipality, city, or town of this state may provide for the training of members of the school safety patrol at any authorized school patrol camp located in this state and may pay the expense necessarily incurred in providing such training out of any funds available for such purpose.

     History: En. 75-8310 by Sec. 494, Ch. 5, L. 1971; amd. Sec. 7, Ch. 234, L. 1977; R.C.M. 1947, 75-8310.