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Dear Superintendent Laster:

Your opinion request on behalf of the Concordia Parish School Board ("Board") has been forwarded to me for research and reply. Your opinion request concerns whether the Board is obligated to seek recovery of overpayments it made to certain school bus drivers.

You provided this office with the following background information. Several school buses used to transport Concordia Parish students are owned by the bus drivers ("owner operators"). At the beginning of each school year, owner operators provide the Board's transportation department with the total number of…