2006 Alabama Code - Section 21-1-10 — Attendance of blind, deaf or mute children between seven and 16 years of age - Required.

It shall be the duty of any parent, guardian or other person having control of any deaf or blind child between the ages of seven and 16 years and so handicapped by deafness, blindness or inability to speak as to be unable to make satisfactory progress in the public schools of the community in which such child resides to enroll such child in the Alabama Institute for Deaf and Blind located at Talladega, Alabama not later than five days after the opening of this school and to keep such child in school during each scholastic year for a term of 36 weeks, or for the length of the school term.

(Acts 1931, No. 61, p. 125; Code 1940, T. 52, §525.)