Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1922-08-11

LAWS, lJA1s dcciShcu toA thooo w..
are inclined TO unjustly deprive their
children of the advantages OF fair
common school education:
Encouraging Delinquency
Misdemeanor
Section 159. In all cases where
any child shall be delinquent child,
Juvenile delinquent person, or
Juvenile disorderly person, as defined
by this Act, the parent or parents,
legal guardian, or person having GUS
tody of such child, or any other per-
son responsible for, or by any act
encouraging. causing or contributing
to the delinquency of such child,
shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
and upon trial and conviction there
of shall be fined in sum not TO ex-
coed Three Hundred Dollars l$3O0),I
or imprisonment In the county JAIL
for period OF not exceeding SIX
months, or shall suffer both fine and
Imprisonment. The Court may inn
pose conditions upon any person
found guilty under this Act, and so
long as such person shall comply
Herewith to the satisfaction or the
Court, the sentence imposed may be
suspended
Children to Attend School ).
Section 100. In all districts OF
this State, all parents, guardians, ana
other persons having care OF chill
dren shall instruct them, or cause
them to be instructed, in reading,
writing, spelling, English grammar,
geography and arithmetic. In such
districts every parent, guardian or
other person having charge OF any
child between the ages OF eight ~
and eighteen (1S) years, shall SEND
such child to a public, private or
parochial school for the entire school
year during which the public schools
are in session in such district; Pro-
vided, however: That this chapter
shall not apply to children over four
teen (14) years of age, where sucn
child shall have completed the eighth
(S) grade, or may be eligible to en-
ter any high school in such district,
or where its help is necessary for It's
own use or its parents support, or
where for good cause shown, II would
be for the best interest of such child
to be relieved from the provisions OF
this chapter; Provided further, that
Ii a reputable physician within the
district shall certify in writing that
| the child's bodily or mental condl-
| ton does not permit its attendance
| at school, such child shall be exempt
during such period OF disability from
| the requirements of this chapter. II
shall be the duty of the superintend-
ent of the school district, If there be
such superintendent, and If not, then
| the county superintendent of schools,
| to hear and determine all applica-
tions of children desiring, for any
| of the causes mentioned here, to be
| exempted from the provisions of this
chapter, and If upon application such
superintendent, hearing the same,
shall be of the opinion that such
child for any reason is entitled to be
exempted as aforesaid, then such SUI
perintendent shall issue a written
| permit to such child, stating therein
his reason for such exemption. An
appeal may be taken from the de-
cision of such superintendent so
passing upon such application, to the
probate court of the county in which
such district lies upon such child
making such application and filing
the same with the clerk or judge OF
said court, within ten days after its
refusal by such superintendent, for
which no fee to exceed the sum OF
One Dollar ($1.00) shall be charged,
and the decision of the probate court
shall be final. An application for
release from the provisions of this
chapter shall not be renewed oftener
than once in three months.
Juvenile Disorderly Persons Defined
Section 161. Every child within
| the provisions of this chapter who
does not attend school, as provided
| in the preceding section, or who is
| in attendance at any public, private
or parochial school, and is vicious, in
| corrigible or Immoral in conduct, or
| who is an habitual truant from
school, or who habitually wanders
about the streets and public places
during school hours without lawful
occupation or employment, or who
habitually wanders about the streets
| in the night time, having no employ
ment or lawful occupation, shall be
| deemed a juvenile disorderly person,
and be subject to the provisions of
| this chapter.
Same. Complaint: Hearing and
Commitment
Section 1862. When a child shall
be juvenile disorderly person with
in the meaning Of this chapter, the
| truant officer, or any school teacher,
or other reputable person, may take
complaint in the probate court of
| the county in which such child re-
| sides. The probate court shall hear
and determine such complaint, and
| IL it Is determined that such child Is
| a juvenile disorderly person within
the meaning of this chapter, he or
| she shall be committed to the chill
| dren's home, II eligible, or to the
Idaho Industrial Training School, or
to some other training school, taking
into account the years Of the child
| with reference to the institution Sc
lected. Any child committed to the
children's home, on Its being shown
to the Judge of said Court that ii Is
incorrigible and vicious, may be
transferred to the Industrial School
or other proper institution. No child
committed to any reformatory shall
be detained beyond his ma ority, and
| NAV be discharged sooner, or paroled