§ 20-33-2-31 — Attendance officers; appointment

Indiana § 20-33-2-31

• Jurisdiction: Indiana
• Title 20: EDUCATION
• Art. 33: STUDENTS: GENERAL PROVISIONS
• Ch. 2: Compulsory School Attendance

Text

(a) The governing body of each school
corporation may appoint or the governing bodies of two (2) or more
school corporations jointly may appoint:
(1) one (1) attendance officer; and
(2) one (1) additional attendance officer for every seven thousand
five hundred (7,500) students in ADA in the school corporation
or school corporations.
The county council shall appropriate, and the board of county
commissioners shall allow, the funds necessary to pay the salary and
expenses of attendance officers appointed in accordance with this
section.
(b) If the governing body of a school corporation declines to make
an appointment, the superintendent of the school corporation shall
serve as ex officio attendance officer under section 35 of this chapter.
[Pre-2005 Elementary and Secondary Education
Recodification Citation: 20-8.1-3-4.]

Legislative History

As added by P.L.1-2005, SEC.17. Amended by P.L.2-2006, SEC.151; P.L.233-2015, SEC.250.