Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1909-09-04

VI q nuiAAOCA VI AA4uAiAN6 SOi10A hiAS
the law in reference to a truant Of
ficer, and also about the compulsory
attendance of children in the pub
lie schools. The law is published
here in full:
Chap. CXXX.-An act providing
for compulsory education and other
matters connected herewith, provid-
ing for penalties for the violation of
any of the provisions thereof, and
repeating any and all prior laws on
the subject of compulsory education.
(Approved March 20, 1900
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 Me-
vada, having control or charge of
any child between the ages of s
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 in 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 mental condition is such as to
prevent or render inadvisable at
tendance at school, or application to
study. A certificate from any repu-
table physician that the child is not
able to attend school, or that its
attendance is inadvisable, must be
taken as satisfactory evidence by
any such board.
(2) When the child has already
completed the eight grades of the
prescribed grammar school course;
go When satisfactory evidence is
presented to the board of trustees
that the child is being taught in a
private school, or by a private tutor,
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;
% When satisfactory evidence is
presented to the board of trustees
that the child's labor is necessary
for its own or its parents support;
CD When the district superin-
tendent shall determine that the
child's residence is located at such
distance from the public school as to
render attendance impracticable OF
unsafe.
Sec. 2. Any child shall be deemed
a truant, in the meaning of this act,
who shall have been absent from
school, without valid excuse, more
than three days; and absence for
any part of a day shall be consider
ed as absence for that entire day.
The teacher, attendance officer, or
other person connected with the
schools, shall send or deliver a writ
ten notice of such truancy to the
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 other person, any
child who is absent from school
thereafter within the school year,
without valid excuse, one or more
days or parts thereof, shall again be
deemed a truant. Any child shall
be declared an habitual 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 habitual truant.
Sec. 9. Any parent, guardian, or
other person having control or
charge of any child, to whom no
tice has been given of %truaney, as
provided in section 2 of this act,
and who fails to prevent the child's
subsequent truancy within that
school year. shall be deemed guilty
Of a misdemeanor. and upon con-
viction shall be liable, for the first
offense, to a fine of not more than
SO or Imprisonment for not more
than five days, and for each suisse
quent offense he shall be liable to
a fine of not less than ten or more
than fifty dollars, or to imprison-
ment for not less than five or more
than twenty-five days, or to both
such fine and Imprisonment.
Sec. 4. The board of trustees of
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