2021 Code of Alabama
Title 16 - Education.
Chapter 30 - Immunization of School Children.
Section 16-30-4 - Presentation of Certificate Upon Initial Entrance Into School.
Section 16-30-4
Presentation of certificate upon initial entrance into school.
The boards of education and the governing authority of each private school shall require each pupil who is otherwise entitled to admittance to kindergarten or first grade, whichever is applicable, or any other entrance into an Alabama public or private school, to present a certification of immunization or testing for the prevention of those communicable diseases designated by the State Health Officer, except as provided in Section 16-30-3. Provided, however, that any student presently enrolled in a school in this state, not having been immunized upon initial entrance to school, is hereby required to present a certification of immunization as described in this section upon commencement of the next school year. Section 16-30-1 and this section shall apply only to kindergarten through 12th grade and not to the institutions of higher learning.
(Acts 1973, No. 1269, p. 2113, §4; Acts 1979, No. 79-677, p. 1208, §2.)
