2014 Kentucky Revised Statutes CHAPTER 158 - CONDUCT OF SCHOOLS -- SPECIAL PROGRAMS 158.160 Notification to school by parent or guardian of child's medical condition threatening school safety -- Exclusion of child with communicable disease from school -- Closing of school during epidemic.
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158.160 Notification to school by parent or guardian of child's medical
condition threatening school safety -- Exclusion of child with
communicable disease from school -- Closing of school during epidemic.
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A parent, legal guardian, or other person or agency responsible for a student
shall notify the student's school if the student has any medical condition which
is defined by the Cabinet for Health and Family Services in administrative
regulation as threatening the safety of the student or others in the school. The
notification shall be given as soon as the medical condition becomes known
and upon each subsequent enrollment by the student in a school. The
principal, guidance counselor, or other school official who has knowledge of the
medical condition shall notify the student's teachers in writing of the nature of
the medical condition.
If any student is known or suspected to have or be infected with a
communicable disease or condition for which a reasonable probability for
transmission exists in a school setting, the superintendent of the district may
order the student excluded from school. The time period the student is
excluded from school shall be in accordance with generally accepted medical
standards which the superintendent shall obtain from consultation with the
student's physician or the local health officer for the county in which the school
district is located. During the presence in any district of dangerous epidemics,
the board of education of the school district may order the school closed.
Effective:June 20, 2005
History: Amended 2005 Ky. Acts ch. 99, sec. 134, effective June 20, 2005. -Amended 1998 Ky. Acts ch. 426, sec. 116, effective July 15, 1998. -- Amended
1992 Ky. Acts ch. 393, sec. 1, effective July 14, 1992. -- Amended 1990 Ky.
Acts ch. 213, sec. 1, effective July 13, 1990; and ch. 476, Pt. V, sec. 402,
effective July 13, 1990. -- Recodified 1942 Ky. Acts ch. 208, sec. 1, effective
October 1, 1942, from Ky. Stat. sec. 4399-59.
Legislative Research Commission Note (7/13/90). The Act amending this section
prevails over the repeal and reenactment in House Bill 940, Acts Ch. 476,
pursuant to Section 653(1) of Acts Ch. 476.
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