Source: http://nebraskalegislature.gov/laws/statutes.php?statute=79-267
Timestamp: 2013-05-21 20:38:42
Document Index: 451481971

Matched Legal Cases: ['§ 11', '§ 2', '§ 3', '§ 17', '§ 3', '§ 79', '§ 71', '§ 5', '§ 83', '§ 2', '§ 83']

Student conduct constituting grounds
for long-term suspension, expulsion, or mandatory reassignment; enumerated;
alternatives for truant or tardy students.The following
student conduct shall constitute grounds for long-term suspension, expulsion,
or mandatory reassignment, subject to the procedural provisions of the Student
Discipline Act, when such activity occurs on school grounds, in a vehicle
owned, leased, or contracted by a school being used for a school purpose or
in a vehicle being driven for a school purpose by a school employee or by
his or her designee, or at a school-sponsored activity or athletic event:
(1) Use of violence, force, coercion, threat, intimidation, or similar
(2) Willfully causing or attempting to cause substantial damage to property,
stealing or attempting to steal property of substantial value, or repeated
damage or theft involving property;
(3) Causing or attempting to cause personal injury to a school employee,
to a school volunteer, or to any student. Personal injury caused by accident,
self-defense, or other action undertaken on the reasonable belief that it
was necessary to protect some other person shall not constitute a violation
(4) Threatening or intimidating any student for the purpose of or with
the intent of obtaining money or anything of value from such student;
(5) Knowingly possessing, handling, or transmitting any object or material
that is ordinarily or generally considered a weapon;
(6) Engaging in the unlawful possession, selling, dispensing, or use
of a controlled substance or an imitation controlled substance, as defined
in section 28-401, a substance represented to be a controlled substance, or
alcoholic liquor as defined in section 53-103.02 or being under the
influence of a controlled substance or alcoholic liquor;
(7) Public indecency as defined in section 28-806, except that this
subdivision shall apply only to students at least twelve years of age but
less than nineteen years of age;
(9) Sexually assaulting or attempting to sexually assault any person
if a complaint has been filed by a prosecutor in a court of competent jurisdiction
alleging that the student has sexually assaulted or attempted to sexually
assault any person, including sexual assaults or attempted sexual assaults
which occur off school grounds not at a school function, activity, or event.
For purposes of this subdivision, sexual assault means sexual assault in the
first degree as defined in section 28-319, sexual assault in the second degree
as defined in section 28-320, sexual assault of a child in the second or third
degree as defined in section 28-320.01, or sexual assault of a child in the
first degree as defined in section 28-319.01, as such sections now provide
or may hereafter from time to time be amended;
(10) Engaging in any other activity forbidden by the laws of the State
of Nebraska which activity constitutes a danger to other students or interferes
with school purposes; or
(11) A repeated violation of any rules and standards validly established
pursuant to section 79-262 if such violations constitute a substantial interference
with school purposes.
It is the intent of the Legislature that alternatives to suspension
or expulsion be imposed against a student who is truant, tardy, or otherwise
absent from required school activities.
Laws 1976, LB 503, § 11; Laws 1983, LB 209, § 2; Laws 1988, LB 316, § 3; Laws 1994, LB 1250, § 17; Laws 1995, LB 658, § 3; R.S.Supp.,1995, § 79-4,180; Laws 1996, LB 900, § 71; Laws 1996, LB 1050, § 5; Laws 2006, LB 1199, § 83; Laws 2008, LB205, § 2; Laws 2010, LB861, § 83.
Anabolic steroids, prohibited acts, see section 79-296.Membership in secret school organization, grounds for expulsion, see section 79-2,101 et seq.