A school board has the duty to protect its students against hazardous conditions near the school site. In other words, when a school board discovers or is aware of an existing hazard on or near a public sidewalk, street, or highway within a two-mile radius of a school campus and the hazard endangers the life or threatens the health or safety of students who walk, ride bicycles, or are transported regularly between their homes and the school in which they are enrolled, within a specified time after discovering the condition. Additionally, the school board has a duty to report a hazardous condition to the governmental entity within the jurisdiction of which the hazardous condition and the school is located. Accordingly, the governmental entity has a statutory duty to investigate following the notification of the condition by the school board.

Further, provisional precautions are practicable to safeguard students until the hazard can be permanently corrected. For instance, no elementary school may be built on or adjacent to a known or contaminated site, unless the necessary steps have been taken to ensure that children attending the school or playing on school property will not be exposed to contaminants in the air, water, or soil at levels that present a threat to human health or the environment.

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