2015 Louisiana Laws
Revised Statutes
TITLE 40 - Public Health and Safety
RS 40:2518 - Retention of child identification card; release or transfer; return

LA Rev Stat § 40:2518 (2015) What's This?

§2518. Retention of child identification card; release or transfer; return

A. The principal of each elementary school shall keep each child identification card on the school premises and shall release or transfer a card only as provided in this Chapter. He shall not permit the inspection, copying, or removal of any child identification card by any person without written permission of the child's parent, except as provided in Subsection B of this Section.

B. The principal of the elementary school of each student who moves from an elementary school to another elementary school within the state shall transfer the child identification card to the new school with the child's other school records. The principal of the elementary school of each student who moves from an elementary school to another school outside of this state shall return the child identification card to the child's parent.

C. The principal shall deliver a child identification card to the parent of that child at any time the parent so requests in writing and the principal shall retain the written request.

D. The principal may release the child identification card of any child to a law enforcement agency or other public agency or entity only if he receives written permission from the child's parent to do so. However, the principal may release the child identification card of any child to a law enforcement agency or other public agency or entity without written permission from the child's parent for good cause shown after a contradictory hearing.

E. The principal shall deliver each child identification card to the child's parent at the end of the child's sixth grade school year. No copy of the card shall be kept by the school.

Acts 1985, No. 122, §1.

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