8-275. Same; qualifications to operate school. Every person in order to qualify to operate a driving school shall meet the following requirements:
(a) Be of good moral character.
(b) Maintain an established place of business to the public.
(c) Maintain bodily injury and property damage liability insurance on motor vehicles while used in driving instruction, insuring the liability of the driving school, the driving instructors and any person taking instruction in at least the following amounts: One hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) for bodily injury to or death of one person in any one accident and, subject to said limit for one person, two hundred thousand dollars ($200,000) for bodily injury to or death of two (2) or more persons in any one accident and the amount of twenty thousand dollars ($20,000) for damage to property of others in any one accident. Evidence of such insurance coverage in the form of a certificate from the insurance carrier shall be filed with the state department of education, and such certificate shall stipulate that the insurance shall not be canceled except upon ten (10) days prior written notice to the state board. Such insurance shall be written by a company authorized to do business in this state.
(d) Provide a continuous surety company bond in the principal sum of two thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500) for the protection of the contractual rights of students in such form as will meet with the approval of the state board and written by a company authorized to do business in this state. However, the aggregate liability of the surety for all breaches of the condition of the bond in no event shall exceed the principal sum of two thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500). The surety on any such bond may cancel such bond on giving thirty (30) days notice thereof in writing to the state board and shall be relieved of liability for any breach of any condition of the bond which occurs after the effective date of cancellation.
(e) Have the equipment necessary to the giving of proper instruction in the operation of motor vehicles as prescribed by the state board.
(f) Pay to the board an application fee of twenty-five dollars ($25).
History: L. 1965, ch. 72, § 3; L. 1969, ch. 310, § 4; July 1.