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Dear Mr. Simon:

On behalf of the Lafayette Parish School Board ("Board"), you requested an opinion of this office on several issues concerning La.R.S. 17:497, which provides for the payment of operational expenses to school bus operators. Below, we separately address each of the following four issues you have raised:

1. In determining operational expenses to be paid a school bus operator under La.R.S. 17:497, is the "cents per mile" amount multiplied by total miles per day in transporting students (morning and afternoon routes combined) or by "mileage one-way" as defined in Subsection C of that…