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

any school district shall, on the COM
plant of any person make a full and
impartial investigation of all charges
against parents or guardians or
other persons having control or
charge Of any such child for viola
.on of any of the provisions of this
ut. If it shall appear upon Euch
Investigation that any such parent
or guardian or other person has
violated any of the provisions of
this act, it is hereby made the duty
lof the clerk of such board or 'trus-
tees to make and file In the proper
court 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 office, such officer
shall, il so directed by the board of
trustees, make and file such com
ulaint, and see that such charge Is
prosecuted by the proper authorities.
Sec. 5. The board OF trustees iof
any school district may appoint and
remove at pleasure an attendance
officer and shall fix the 'compensa-
tion therefor, and shall prescribe the
duties of said officer, not i~nconsist-
mt with law, and make rules and
regulations for the performance
threof. 1t 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 warrent, any child between the
ageA of 8 and 16 years, who has
been reported to him by the teacher,
the city superintendent OF 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
tacher, parent, guardian, or other
person having control or charge of
said child.
Sec. 6. Boards of trustees are
hereby authorized to set apart amy
school building or buildings or ANY
Dom or rooms in any school build
ing or buildings for the establish
ment of special or ungraded schools,
to provide for the instruction of
hIabituai truants as defined in sec
ton 2 of this act, or for pupils who
have been insubordinate or disorder
ly during attendance at school.
Boards of trustees are also author
lied to purchase sites and erect
buildings for such purposes, in the
eame 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
lAal 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 truante and other
pupils who have been in~suborninate
or disorderly 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-
eN TO their former room or grade
when in the judgement of the board
there has been sufficient improve
ment to warrant the belief hat their
example and influence will no lnoger
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 ulawfully 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 not more than
fifty dollars or by imprison-
ment of not more than twenty-five
dlys, Or by both such fine and i'm
| prisonment. The attendance officer
or any other school officer is hereby
empowered to visit any place or
establishment where minor children
are employed to ascertain whether
the provisions of this yaw are duly
complied with, and may demand
from all employers of such children
a list of employees of such child
renen employed, with their names
and ages.
Sec. 8. Any parent, guardian, or