§ 20-33-2-24 — Principal; duties when truant child received

(a) When a child is delivered into the
custody of a principal or acting chief administrative officer under
section 23 of this chapter, the principal or officer shall immediately
place the child in class in the grade or course of study in which the
child is enrolled or to which the child may be properly assigned.
(b) A child who is placed in class under this section shall not be
kept at school beyond the regular hour of dismissal on that day for the
grade or course of study in which the child is placed. As promptly as
reasonably possible after placing a child in class under this section, the
principal or acting chief administrative officer shall attempt to advise
the child's parent of the facts of the case by telephone. The principal or
acting chief administrative officer shall advise the parent of the facts
of the case by mail on the same day the principal or officer receives the
child.
[Pre-2005 Elementary and Secondary Education
Recodification Citation: 20-8.1-3-30.]

Legislative History

As added by P.L.1-2005, SEC.17.