(a) The department of education shall provide for the manufacture of 3 signs per school and steel post for each sign used to mark each permanent drug-free school zone. Each SAU shall be responsible for posting and maintaining 2 signs per permanent drug-free school zone and one sign to be used to post a temporary drug-free school zone. If an SAU requires replacement signs, such signs shall be available from the department of education. If an SAU acquires additional signs, such signs shall be manufactured and posted in accordance with Ed 316.(b) Such signs shall be posted at the main entrance to the school grounds and at the main entrance to the school building. The local police authority and the school principal and/or superintendent of the SAU shall determine where the sign at the main entrance to the school grounds shall be posted and shall post each sign in accordance with the US Department of Transportation Federal Highway Administration, Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices Part 7-Traffic Controls for School Areas 2009 Edition PDF version dated May 2012 at www.mutcd.fhwa.dot.gov/kno_2009r1r2.htm, as referenced in Appendix II.(c) Each school bus shall have installed in and on an interior surface at the front of the bus, forward of the passenger seating area, a drug-free school zone sign. The department of education shall provide for the manufacture of one sign for each school bus in operation. If an SAU acquires additional busses, signs shall be provided by the department and posted in accordance with this rule.(d) The school principal or designee shall be responsible for placing one sign at the temporary drug-free zone location and for assuring that a temporary drug-free school zone sign shall be affixed, fastened, or attached to the exterior of the facility being utilized. If the temporary drug-free zone does not include a building the sign shall be attached to a temporary post placed at the entrance to the facility. Such sign shall be posted for at least 1/2 hour before, during, and 1/2 hour after the facility is used as a temporary drug-free school zone. Posting of the drug-free school zone sign at a temporary school zone shall be subject to permission by the owner if the facility is privately owned.N.H. Admin. Code § Ed 316.05
#5668, eff 7-19-93; ss by #6366, eff 10-30-96, EXPIRED: 10-30-04
New. #8206, INTERIM, eff 11-18-04, EXPIRED: 5-17-05
New. #8583, eff 3-15-06
Amended byVolume XXXIV Number 33, Filed August 14, 2014, Proposed by #10649, Effective 7/26/2014, Expires7/26/2024.The amended version of this section by New Hampshire Register Volume 35, Number 27, eff.6/29/2015 is not yet available.