CHAPTER 42 - TRUANCY CODE
Resolu. 2006-601
Section 42-1 Notice To Parents and Students
Section 42-2 Definitions
Section 42-3 Mandatory Attendance Requirements
Section 42-5 Unexcused Absences
Section 42-7 Community Truancy Boards
Section 42-9 Court Intervention
Section 42-11 Court Jurisdiction and Process
Section 42-13 Sanctions
Section 42-15 Child Employment
Section 42-1 Notice To Parents and Students
42-1.01 Notice To Parents and Students.
(a) Each school within the Spokane Indian Reservation shall inform the students and the parents of
the students enrolled in the school about the compulsory education requirements under these
provisions.
(b) Each school shall inform students and parents of the students who are non-Indian that
enrollment of a child in a school on the Spokane Indian Reservation means that the parent
consents to the authority of the school to enforce the following truancy requirements; provided,
however, unless the parent and child consent to the jurisdiction of the Spokane Tribal Court, the
petition for Court intervention shall be filed with the Stevens County Juvenile Court.
(c) Each school shall distribute the information required in this section 42-1.01 at least annually.
Section 42-2 Definitions
42-2.01 Definitions. For purposes of this Code, certain terms are defined in this Section.
(a) The word “shall” always is mandatory and not merely advisory.
(b) “Approved Tribal school” or “private school,” means a school approved by the Tribal Business
Council of the Spokane Tribe of Indians.
(c) “Certificated person” means an individual who has shown a level of proficiency in an educational
area and holds a certificate issued by:
(1) rule of the Washington Professional Educator Standards Board or the Washington
Superintendent of Public Instruction, or
(2) the Spokane Tribal Business Council or its designated representative.
(d) "Community Truancy Board" or “CTB” means a board composed of members of the local
community in which the child attends school.
(e) “Hereof” is a generalized referent used to direct the reader’s attention to another Section or
subsection of this Code.
(f) “Parent” means a parent or person having legal custody of a child, including a foster parent, a
custodian, or a guardian.
(g) “Reservation” means all lands and water areas within the exterior boundaries of the Spokane
Indian Reservation, and all Spokane Tribal and allotted Indian trust lands outside the exterior
boundaries of the Spokane Indian Reservation.
(h) “School district” means the Wellpinit School District.
(i) ”Tribal Court” means the Youth Court of the Spokane Tribe of Indians.
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