A. All
contracts between any school and any individual or group attending the school
shall be in a standard format approved by the department. A school shall not
make any changes to the format without review and approval by the department. A
copy of the signed contract must be provided to each student who signs the
contract for those students 18 years of age or older and those students under
18 years of age who are either married or emancipated. For students under 18
years of age who are not married or emancipated, a copy of the signed contract
must be provided to the parents or legal guardians who sign the contract.
Excluding transcripts and certificates of completion, all
written correspondence from schools to current or former students and their
parents or legal guardians related in any way to course work or the contract
between the school and the student shall include standard information about the
department's toll-free telephone hotline. The department shall specify to the
schools, as part of the school license application package, the content and the
font requirements for this hotline information.
Schools may not include any statements in their contracts
that place the financial responsibility for accidents occurring in school-owned
vehicles during periods of instruction on the student or on the parents or
legal guardians of students operating the vehicles.
B. The required elements for all contracts
between schools and their independent contractors shall be provided by the
department as part of the school license application package.
C. Addenda to any contracts between a school
and its students or a school and its independent contractors shall be approved
by the department.
D. Licensed
driver training schools may conduct training courses at public or private
schools, subject to existing statutory and regulatory requirements. Driver
training schools offering such training shall provide the department, in a
format prescribed by the department, with a copy of the contract between the
driver training school and the public or private school along with confirmation
as to which portion of the training, if any, is being conducted at the public
or private school.
Notes
24 Va. Admin. Code §
20-121-90
Derived from Virginia
Register Volume 24, Issue 4, eff. January 1, 2008; amended, Virginia Register
Volume 27, Issue 9, eff. February 2, 2011.
Statutory Authority
§§
46.2-203 and
46.2-1703 of the Code of
Virginia.
