(a) All students of the Virgin Islands enrolled full-time in public, private or parochial schools, and full-time students of the University of the Virgin Islands shall be eligible for a public transportation discount card, regardless of age.
(b) The Department of Public Works, through the Office of the Commissioner of Public Works, shall be responsible for establishing a system for effectively instituting the student transportation discount card by September of 1993, and may charge a yearly fee for the issuance of such card, not to exceed five dollars.
(c) Students using the discount cards shall receive a discount of twenty-five percent (25%), on the city and country routes of the Virgin Islands Transit System (VITRAN), at any time.
(d) To receive the student discount card, each student shall appear in person and present a current student identification card from the school they attend to the designated personnel of the Department of Public Works, who shall issue a transportation discount card bearing the name of the student, the school he or she attends, the student's social security number, and a photo identification of that student, and any other necessary information. The discount card shall be issued for a period of one calendar year.
(e) The student, upon receiving the discount card, must present that card to the bus driver before depositing the discounted fee into the bus' fee collector.