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qualifications equal to those of pupils who have completed the eighth grade; or who is excused for sufficient reasons by any court of record or judge thereof; or while attending religious service or receiving religious instructions. Any person who shall violate the provisions of this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall pay a fine of not less than three dollars nor more than twenty dollars, for each offense. [35 G. A., ch. 255, § 1; 33 G. A., ch. 187, § 1; 33 G. A., ch. 186, § 1; 30 G. A., ch. 116, § 1; 29 G. A., ch. 128, § 1.]

Sec. 2823-b. Reports to secretary. Upon notice from the secretary of the school corporation within which such school is conducted, it shall be the duty of each principal of each private or parochial school, once during each school year, and at any time when requested in individual cases, and within ten days from the receipt of such notice, to furnish to such secretary a certificate and report of the names, ages and attendance of the pupils in attendance at such school during the preceding year and from the time of the last preceding report to the time at which a report is required and any person having the control of any child between seven and fourteen years of age inclusive, who shall place the same under private instruction, not in a regularly conducted school, upon receiving notice from the secretary of the school corporation, shall furnish a like certificate stating the name and age of such child and the period of time during which said child. has been under said private instruction; and any person having the control of such child who is physically or mentally unable to attend school, public or private, shall furnish proofs by affidavit or affidavits as to the physical or mental condition of such child. All such certificates, reports and proofs shall be filed and preserved in the office of the secretary of the school corporation as a part of the records of his office. [29 G. A., ch. 128, § 2.]

Sec. 2823-c. Certified copies. It shall be the duty of the secretary of the school corporation to furnish to any person interested, where so requested, certified copies of all certificates contemplated by this act, on file in his office. [29 G. A., ch. 128, § 3.]

Sec. 2823-d. Truant schools. The board of directors of any school corporation may establish truant schools, or set apart separate rooms in any public school building, for the instruction of children who are habitually truant from instruction, as contemplated by this act. Such directors may provide for the confinement, maintenance, and instruction of such children in such schools, under such reasonable rules and regulations as they may prescribe. If any child, committed or sent to the truant school shall prove insubordinate and escape from such, school during school hours, or absent himself or herself therefrom without the consent of the persons in charge thereof, then it shall be the duty of the person in charge of said school with the consent of the parent or guardian to file information before the judge of a court

of record, who may, if the charge be found to be true and the said child be habitually vagrant, disorderly, or incorrigible commit such child to one of the industrial schools of the state, under the same proceeding as is provided by section twenty-seven hundred eight (2708) of the code so far as the same may be applicable. [29 G. A., ch. 128, § 4.]

Sec. 2823-e. Truant officers. The board of directors of each school corporation may, and in school corporations having a population of twenty thousand (20,000) or more shall, at their annual meeting in each year, appoint one or more truant officers, who shall serve for one year, and who may be a constable or a member of the police force, whose duty it shall be to report violations of this act to the secretary of the school corporation, and see to the enforcement of the provisions of this act. It shall be the duty of said truant officer or officers to apprehend and take into custody without warrant any child of the age of seven (7) to fourteen (14) years inclusive, who habitually frequents or loiters about public places during school hours without lawful occupation, or cannot produce a certificate as provided in section. two (2) hereof, also any truant child who absents himself or herself from school, and place him or her in charge of the teacher having charge of any school, which said child is entitled to attend, and which school may be designated to said officers by the person having legal control of such child. Provided, however, in case the school so designated by the parent or person having the care and control of said child be a public school it shall be such as directed by the rules and regulations of the school board and the statutes of the state, and if other than a public school, the maintenance of said child in such school shall be without expense to the school corporation or state. Upon failure of such child to properly attend or when on report of the teacher having the custody of such child, said child is shown to not properly conduct itself in the school where placed as herein provided, the child may be removed therefrom by the board of directors and placed either in a public school or a truant school conducted in said district. The truant officer or officers shall be entitled to such compensation for service rendered under this act, as shall be fixed by the board of directors appointing him or them, which compensation shall be paid from the contingent fund of said district. In towns and cities of the second class, the independent school district may employ the marshal or other police officer of such city or town to act as truant officer, and pay him a salary in addition to that received from such city or town of not to exceed five ($5.00) dollars per month. [33 G. A., ch. 188; 30 G. A., ch. 116, § 2; 29 G. A., ch. 128, § 5.]

Sec 2823-f. Enforcement. It shall be the duty of the director or president of any board of directors, or any truant officers appointed by such board of directors, to enforce the provisions of this act, to sue for and recover the penalties herein provided, and

to institute criminal prosecution against any person violating the provisions of this act, and any such officers neglecting to do so within thirty (30) days after a written notice has been served upon him by any citizen of said district or the county superintendent of the county within which the offending person shall reside, shall himself be liable for a fine of not less than ten ($10) dollars nor more than twenty ($20) dollars for each offense. [32 G. A., ch. 154; 29 G. A., ch. 128, § 6.]

Sec. 2823-g. Teachers and school officers-duties. All teachers of the public schools of the state, and county superintendents, and school officers and employees shall promptly report to the secretary of the school corporation any violations of the provisions of this act, of which they have knowledge or information, and he shall promptly inform the president of the board of directors thereof, and such president shall, if necessary, call a meeting of the board of directors to take such action thereon as the facts shall justify, and any child placed in any truant school may be discharged therefrom at the discretion of the board, upon sufficient assurance of the future good conduct of such child. [29 G. A., ch. 128, § 7.]

Sec. 2823-h. Provisions for punishment. The board of directors of every school corporation is hereby authorized to provide such reasonable methods of punishment of children who are habitually truant from school, or who habitually frequent or loiter about public places during school hours, without lawful occupation, as may be necessary to carry out and make effectual the provisions of this act. [29 G. A., ch. 128, § 8.]

Sec. 2823-i. School census. It shall be the duty of all officers, empowered to take the school census, to ascertain the number of children of the ages of seven to sixteen years, inclusive, in their respective districts, the number of such children who do not attend school, and so far as possible the cause of failure to attend school. [35 G. A., ch. 255, § 2; 29 G. A., ch. 128, § 9.]

SCHOOL LAWS-SALE.

Sec. 2823-j. Compilation-number-distribution. The superintendent of public instruction shall every four years, if deemed necessary, cause to be printed, bound and distributed all school laws in force up to that time, the number to be determined by the executive council. Each county superintendent shall be furnished a sufficient number of copies to supply the school officers of the state and such others as may request them. [35 G. A., ch. 256, § 1; 27 G. A., ch. 90, § 1.]

LIBRARIES.

Sec. 2823-n. Library fund. The treasurer of each school township and each rural independent district in this state shall

withhold annually, from the money received from the apportionment for the several school districts, not less than five nor more than fifteen cents, as may be ordered by the board, for each person of school age residing in each school corporation, as shown. by the annual report of the secretary, for the purchase of books as hereinafter provided. When so ordered by the board of directors, the provisions of this section shall apply to any independent district. [28 G. A., ch. 23, § 1.]

Sec. 2823-0. Purchase of books-distribution. Between the third Monday of September and the first day of December in each year the president and secretary of the board, with the assistance of the county superintendent of schools, shall expend all money withheld by the treasurer as provided in section one of this act, in the purchase of books selected from the lists prepared by the state board of educational examiners as hereinafter provided, for the use of the school district; in school townships the secretary shall distribute the books thus selected to the librarians among the several subdistricts, and at least semi-annually collect the same and distribute others. [28 G. A., ch. 110, § 2.]

Sec. 2823-p. State board of educational examiners to prepare list of books. It is hereby made the duty of the state board of educational examiners to prepare at its discretion lists of books suitable for use in school district libraries, and furnish copies of such lists to each president, secretary, and each county superintendent, as often as the same shall be published or revised, from which lists the several presidents and secretaries and county superintendents shall select and purchase books. [33 G. A., ch. 189; 28 G. A., ch. 110, § 3.]

Sec. 2823-q. Record book. It shall be the duty of each sec-retary to keep in a record book, furnished by the board of directors, a complete record of the books purchased and distributed by him. [28 G. A., ch. 110, § 4.]

Sec. 2823-r. Librarian. Unless the board of directors shall elect some other person, the secretary in independent districts and director in subdistricts in school townships shall act as librarian and shall receive and have the care and custody of the books, and shall loan them to teachers, pupils, and other residents of the district, in accordance with the rules and regulations prescribed by the state board of educational examiners and board of directors. Each librarian shall keep a complete record of the books in a record book furnished by the board of directors. During the periods that the school is in session the library shall be placed in the schoolhouse, and the teacher shall be responsible to the district for its proper care and protection. The board of directors shall have supervision of all books and shall make an equitable distribution thereof among the schools of the corporation. [28 G. A., ch. 110, § 5.]

VOCAL MUSIC

Sec. 2823-s. Instruction in vocal music authorized. That the elements of vocal music, including when practical the singing of simple music by note, be taught in all of the public schools of Iowa, and that all teachers teaching in schools where such instruction is not given by special teachers be required to satisfy the county superintendent of their ability to teach the elements of vocal music in a proper manner. Provided, however, that no teacher shall be refused a certificate or the grade of his or her certificate lowered on account of lack of ability to sing. [28 G. A., ch. 109, § 1.]

Sec. 2823-t. Normal institute. That it shall be the duty of each county superintendent to have taught annually in the normal institute the elements of vocal music. [28 G. A., ch. 109, § 2.]

OF PUBLIC RECREATION AND PLAY GROUNDS.

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Sec. 2823-u. Establishments supervision. Boards of school directors in school districts containing or contained in cities of the first or second class, cities under special charter, or cities under the commission plan of government, are hereby authorized to establish and maintain for children in the public school buildings and on the public school grounds under the custody and management of such boards, public recreation places and playgrounds and necessary accommodations for same, without charge to the residents of said school district; also to co-operate with the commissioners or boards having the custody and management in such cities of public parks and public buildings and grounds of whatever sort, and by making arrangements satisfactory to such boards controlling public parks and grounds to provide for the supervision, instruction and oversight necessary to carry on public educational and recreational activities, as described in this section in buildings and upon grounds in the custody and under the management of such commissioners or boards having charge of public parks and public buildings on grounds of whatever sort, in such cities of the first or second class, cities under special charter, or cities under commission plan of government. [35 G. A., ch. 257, § 1.]

Sec. 2823-u1. Tax levy-petition-submission. The board of directors of any school district containing, or contained in, any city of the first or second class, city under special charter, or city under the commission plan of government, may, and upon petition to that effect signed by legally qualified voters aggregating not less than twenty-five per cent of the number voting at the last preceding school election, shall submit to the electors of such school district the question of levying a tax as in this act provided; and if a majority of the votes cast upon such propo

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