§ 312-13. Overtaking and passing a school bus.

A. 

The driver of a vehicle upon a street or highway, upon meeting or overtaking from either direction a school bus marked and equipped as provided in the Vehicle and Traffic Law of the State of New York which has stopped on the highway for the purpose of receiving or discharging school children, shall stop the vehicle before reaching such school bus when there is in operation on said school bus a visual signal as specified in the Vehicle and Traffic Law of the State of New York, and said driver shall not proceed until such school bus resumes motion or until signaled by the driver or a police officer to proceed.

B. 

The driver of such school bus, when discharging pupils who must cross the highway, shall instruct such pupils to cross in front of the bus, and the driver thereof shall keep such school bus halted with red signal lights flashing until such pupils have reached the opposite side of the highway.