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16-28-6
Section 16-28-6 Children exempt from attending public school. (a) The following children, when
issued certificates of exemption by the county superintendent of education, where they reside
in territory under the control and supervision of the county board of education, or the city
superintendent of schools, where they reside in territory under the control and supervision
of a city board of education, shall not be required to attend school, or to be instructed
by a private tutor: (1) Children whose physical or mental condition is such as to prevent
or render inadvisable attendance at school or application to study. Before issuing such certificate
of exemption, the superintendent shall require a certificate from the county health officer
in counties which have a health unit, and from a regularly licensed, practicing physician
in counties which do not have a health unit, that such a child is physically or mentally incapacitated
for school work. (2) Children who have completed the course...
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16-28-16
Section 16-28-16 Cases of nonenrollment and nonattendance; withdrawal of enrollment. (a) It
shall be the duty of the county superintendent of education or the city superintendent of
education, as the case may be, to require the attendance officer to investigate all cases
of nonenrollment and of nonattendance. In all cases investigated where no valid reason for
nonenrollment or nonattendance is found, the attendance officer shall give written notice
to the parent, guardian, or other person having control of the child. In the event of the
absence of the parent, guardian, or other person having control of the child from his or her
usual place of residence, the attendance officer shall leave a copy of the notice with some
person over 12 years of age residing at the usual place of residence, with instructions to
hand the notice to the parent, guardian, or other person having control of the child, which
notice shall require the attendance of the child at the school within three days from the...
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16-40-9
Section 16-40-9 Instruction for avoiding child sexual abuse. (a)(1) The Legislature recognizes
that Erin Merryn was raped and molested for six and a half years by a neighbor and a family
member. She began a crusade her senior year of high school in 2004 to end the silence and
shame around sexual abuse. Erin's Law has been adopted in a number of states to help address
the problem of child sexual abuse. (2) The intent of Erin's Law is to shatter the silence
and stigma around child sexual abuse, and to educate children and empower them to recognize
and to report abuse. (3) The Legislature finds that without a specific initiative like Erin's
Law, schools generally fail to give young students adequate awareness and a voice in this
issue. (b) The Governor's Task Force on Prevention of Sexual Abuse of Children created under
subsection (c) shall adopt guidelines for a child sexual abuse prevention instructional program.
The guidelines shall: (1) Educate children in grades pre-kindergarten...
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16-6F-9
Section 16-6F-9 Legal status and powers of public charter schools; employees. (a) Legal status
of a public charter school. (1) Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, to the
extent that any provision of this chapter is inconsistent with any other state or local law,
rule, or regulation, the provisions of this chapter shall govern and be controlling. (2) A
public charter school shall be subject to all federal laws and authorities enumerated herein
or arranged by charter contract with the school's authorizer, where such contracting is consistent
with applicable laws, rules, and regulations. (3) Except as provided in this chapter, a public
charter school shall not be subject to the state's education statutes or any state or local
rule, regulation, policy, or procedure relating to non-charter public schools within an applicable
local school system regardless of whether such rule, regulation, policy, or procedure is established
by the local school board, the State Board of...
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44-2-20
Section 44-2-20 Text of compact. The Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children is hereby
enacted into law and entered into with all other jurisdictions legally joining therein in
form substantially as follows: Article I. Purpose and Policy. It is the purpose and policy
of the party states to cooperate with each other in the interstate placement of children to
the end that: (a) Each child requiring placement shall receive the maximum opportunity to
be placed in a suitable environment and with persons or institutions having appropriate qualifications
and facilities to provide a necessary and desirable degree and type of care. (b) The appropriate
authorities in a state where a child is to be placed may have full opportunity to ascertain
the circumstances of the proposed placement, thereby promoting full compliance with applicable
requirements for the protection of the child. (c) The proper authorities of the state from
which the placement is made may obtain the most complete...
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11-52-6
Section 11-52-6 Municipal Planning Commission - Powers and duties generally. (a) In general,
the commission shall have such powers as may be necessary to enable it to fulfill its functions,
promote municipal planning or carry out the purposes of this chapter. (b) The commission shall
have power to promote public interest in and understanding of the master plan and to that
end may publish and distribute copies of the plan or of any report and may employ such other
means of publicity and education as it may determine. (c) Members of the commission, when
duly authorized by the commission, may attend municipal planning conferences or meetings of
municipal planning institutes or hearings upon pending municipal planning legislation, and
the commission may, by resolution, spread upon its minutes, pay the reasonable traveling expenses
incident to such attendance. (d) The commission shall, from time to time, recommend to the
appropriate public officials programs for public structures and...
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16-1-24.3
Section 16-1-24.3 Local boards of education to implement policies requiring expulsion of students
who possess firearms in school areas. (a) All city and county boards of education shall develop
and implement local policies and procedures requiring the expulsion of students, for a period
of one year, who are determined to have brought to school or have in their possession a firearm
in a school building, on school grounds, on school buses, or at other school-sponsored functions.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, city and county boards of education and the local superintendent
of education of each board may modify the expulsion requirement for a student on a case-by-case
basis. Students who are expelled for violation of this section shall not be allowed to attend
regular school classes in any public school in the state during the expulsion period. Students
who are expelled from schools for firearm possession may be permitted to attend alternative
schools designed to provide education...
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16-22A-6
Section 16-22A-6 Request from schools for criminal history background information check. (a)
The State Department of Education, or other public authorized employer responsible for hiring
employees who will have unsupervised access to children in an educational setting, shall request
through the State Department of Education, that the Department of Public Safety secure from
both the Alabama Bureau of Investigation and Federal Bureau of Investigation a criminal history
background information check on each applicant for certification, certified applicant for
public employment, noncertified applicant for public employment, and public current employee
under review. (b) Any nonpublic school in which an individual may have unsupervised access
to children in an educational setting, shall through its duly authorized representative under
guidelines established by the nonpublic school employer, request that the Department of Public
Safety secure a state criminal history background information...
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16-40A-2
Section 16-40A-2 Minimum contents to be included in sex education program or curriculum. (a)
Any program or curriculum in the public schools in Alabama that includes sex education or
the human reproductive process shall, as a minimum, include and emphasize the following: (1)
Abstinence from sexual intercourse is the only completely effective protection against unwanted
pregnancy, sexually transmitted diseases, and acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) when
transmitted sexually. (2) Abstinence from sexual intercourse outside of lawful marriage is
the expected social standard for unmarried school-age persons. (b) Course materials and instruction
that relate to sexual education or sexually transmitted diseases should be age-appropriate.
(c) Course materials and instruction that relate to sexual education or sexually transmitted
diseases should include all of the following elements: (1) An emphasis on sexual abstinence
as the only completely reliable method of avoiding unwanted...
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26-14-3
Section 26-14-3 Mandatory reporting. (a) All hospitals, clinics, sanitariums, doctors, physicians,
surgeons, medical examiners, coroners, dentists, osteopaths, optometrists, chiropractors,
podiatrists, physical therapists, nurses, public and private K-12 employees, school teachers
and officials, peace officers, law enforcement officials, pharmacists, social workers, day
care workers or employees, mental health professionals, employees of public and private institutions
of postsecondary and higher education, members of the clergy as defined in Rule 505 of the
Alabama Rules of Evidence, or any other person called upon to render aid or medical assistance
to any child, when the child is known or suspected to be a victim of child abuse or neglect,
shall be required to report orally, either by telephone or direct communication immediately,
and shall be followed by a written report, to a duly constituted authority. (b)(1) When an
initial report is made to a law enforcement official, the...
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