The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1909-10-03

The News has been in receipt
of a number of inquiries concerning
the law in reference to a truant Of
f1cer, and also about the compulsory
attendance of children in the pub
lie schools. The law is puhliched
here in full:
Chap. CXXX.-An act providing
for compulsory education and other
matters connected herewith, provid-
ing for the penalties for violation of
any of the provisions thereof, and
repeating any and all prior laws on
the subject of compulsory education.
(Approved March 20, 1909.)
The people of the state of Nevada,
represented in senate and assembly
do enact as follows:
Section 1. Each parent, guardian,
or other person, in the state of Ne
vada, having control or charge of
any shild between the ages of 8
and 16 years shall be required to
send such child to a public school
during the time in which a public
school shall be in session i'm the
school district in which said child
resides; but such attendance shall
be excused:
Cd When satisfactory evidence is
presented to the board of trustees of
the school district in which such
child resides, that the child's bodily
or metal condition is such as to
prevent or render inadvisab1e at
tendance ats chool, or application to
study. A certificate from any repu-
table physicians that the child is not
able to attend school, or that it's
attendance is inadvisable, must be
taken as satisfactory evidence by
any such board.
ca When the child has already
completed the eight grade of the
prescribed grammar school course;
CD When satisfactory evidence is
presented to the board of trustees
that the child is being taught in a
private school, or by a private toutor,
or at home, by any person capable
of teaching in such branches as are
usually taught in the primary and
grammar schools of this state;
(4) When satisfactory evidence is
presented to the board of trustees
that the child's labor is necessary
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60 When the district superin-
tendent shall determine that the
child's residence islocate d at sue
distance from thepub lisc school at to
rener attendance impracticable or
unsafe.
Sec. 2. Any child shall be deemed
a truant, in the meaning of this act
who hall have been absent from
school, without valid excuse, more
thai three days; and absence for
any part of a day shall be consider
ed as absence for that entire tday.
The teacher, attendance officer, or
other person connected with the
schools, shall send ordeliver a writ
ten notice of such truancy to hhe
parent, guardian or other person,
having control or charge of the
child. After such notice has thus
been sent to said parent, guard
ian or cher person, any child who is
absent from school thereafter within
the school year, without valid ex-
cuse one or more days or part there
of, shall again be deemed a truant.
Any child shall be declared a truant
who shall have been deemed a truant
three or more times within the
school year. Any child who has
once been declared an habitual
truant and who in a succeeding year
is absent from school, without valid
excuse, for one or more. days or
parts Thereof, may again be declared
an hibitual truant.
Sec. 8 Any parant, guardian, or
other person having control or
charge of any child, to whom no.
tice has been given of truancy, tas
provided in section 2 of this iact,
and who fails to prevent the child's
subsequent truancy within that
school year, shall be deemed guilty
of a misdemeanor, and upon con-
vScion shall be liable, for the first
offeEse, to a fine of mot more than
$40 or Imprisonment for not o
than five days, and far each subse-
querEt offemse he shall be liable tc
a. fine of not less than ten or o
than fifty dollars, or to aimprison-
ment for not less TINA five or more
than twenty-five days, or to both
such fine and Imprisonment.
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