Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1909-09-04
ALL CHILDREN FROM
EIGHT TO SIXTEEN YEARS
MUST ATTEND SCHOOL
An Act Providing for Compulsory Education
and Other Matters Connected Herewith.

MS act, ~ is HSISUy uldue Jne uuly
If the clerk OF such board of trus-
.ees to make and file in the proper
a criminal complaint against
such parent, guardian, or other per-
son, charging such violation, and to
see that such charge is prosecuted
by the proper authorities; provided,
that in such school districts having
an attendance officer, such officer
shall, if so directed by the board of
trustees, make and file such COM
plant, and see that such charge is
prosecuted by the proper authorities.
Sec. ) The board of trustees of
any school district may appoint and
remove at pleasure an attendance
officer and shall fix the compensa-
ton therefor, and shall prescribe the
duties of said officer, not ~inconsist-
ent with law, and make rules and
regulations for the performance
thereof. It shall be the duty of the
attendance officer. or any peace Of
ficer, or any other school officer, to
arrest during school hours, without
a warrant, any child between the
ages of s and 16 years, who has
been reported to him by the teacher,
the city superintendent or other per-
son connected with the schools, as
an absentee from instruction upon
which he is lawfully required to at
tend within the school district. Such
arresting officer shall forthwith de-
liver the child so arrested to the
teacher, parent, guardian, or other
person having control or charge of
said child.
Sec. G. Boards of trustees are
hereby authorized to set apart any
school building or buildings or any
room or rooms in any school build
ing or buildings for the establish
ment of special or ungraded schools,
to provide for the instruction of
habitual truants as defined in sec
ton 2 of this act, or for pupils who
have been insubordinate or disorder
" during attendance at school.
Boards of trustees are also author
lied to purchase sites and erect
buildings for such purposes, in the
same manner as other school sites
and school buildings may be pur-
chased and erected; or boards of
trustees may rent suitable property
for special or ungraded rooms with
out being so directed by the vote of
the district. Teachers of such spec
ial or ungraded schools shall have
the same qualifications as other
teachers in the grades, and shall be
paid from the same funds. Boards
of trustees are hereby authorized to
assign habitual truants and other
pupils who have been insubordinate
or d%isorderly during attendance at
school to such special and ungraded
schools for a period not to exceed
the remainder of the school year.
Such pupils, however, may be restor-
ed to their former room or grade
when in the judgment of the board
there has been sufficient improve
ment to warrant the belief that their
example and influence will no longer
be a detriment to the room to which
they shall return.
Sec. Z. Any person who induces
or attempts to induce any child to
be absent unlawfully from school, or
who knowingly employs or harbors
while school is in session any child
absent unlawfully from school, shall
be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor.
and on conviction shall be punished
by a fine of not more than
fifty dollars or by imprison-
emnt of not more than twenty
five days. 70 by both such
fine and Imprisonment. The at
tendance officer or any other school
officer Is hereby empowered to visit
any place or establishment where
minor children are employed to as
certain whether the provisions of
this law are duly complied with, and
may demand from all employers of
such children a fist of children en-
ployed, with their names and ages.
Sec. s. Any parent, guardian, or
other person who makes a false
statement concerning the age or
school attendance of a child between
the ages of s and 16 years who is
under his control or charge, such
false statement being made with in
tent to deceive under this act, shall
be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor,
and on conviction, shall be punished
by a fine of not more than fifty
dollars or by Imprisonment of not
more than twenty-five days, or by
both such fine and Imprisonment.
Sec. 8. All fines collected under
the provisions Of this act shall be