1997 Minnesota Code
Chapters 120 - 129B Education Code: Prekindergarten - Grade 12
Chapter 128C High School League
Section 128C.02 Duties, policies, criteria, rules of board.

128C.02 Duties, policies, criteria, rules of board.

Subdivision 1. Decisions, policies, advisory committees. The board shall establish and adopt policies, make decisions on behalf of the league, and establish advisory committees necessary to carry out board functions.

Subd. 2. Sexual harassment and violence; hazing. The board of the league shall adopt a policy, rules, penalties, and recommendations addressing sexual harassment and sexual violence and hazing toward and by participants in league activities.

Subd. 3. Criteria for conference arrangements. The board must develop criteria for the league to use when it is asked to arrange for membership in an interscholastic conference by a league member under section 128C.07. The league must give notice and an opportunity for league members to be heard before adopting the criteria. The criteria must include, at least, the distance to be traveled by competing schools, the relative enrollments of the schools, and the comparability of extracurricular activities in the schools.

Subd. 4. Rules are apa exempt. The rules of the league are exempt from chapter 14, including section 14.386.

Subd. 5. Rules for open enrollees. The league shall adopt league rules and regulations governing the athletic participation of pupils attending school in a nonresident district under section 120.062.

Subd. 6. Annual report. The board annually shall prepare a written report containing the information about the league that the commissioner is required to obtain and review under section 128C.20. The board shall present copies of the report in a timely manner to the education committees of the legislature.

Subd. 7. Women referees. The league shall adopt league rules and policy requiring, to the extent possible, the equal employment of women as referees for high school activities and sports contests, from game level to tournament level.

Subd. 8. Budget. The league is subject to the commissioner of finance's rules and instructions governing budget preparation. The league budget must be submitted to the commissioner of finance and to the legislature in the same manner as budgets of executive branch agencies.

HIST: 1989 c 220 s 4; 1989 c 329 art 8 s 9; art 9 s 16; 1990 c 425 s 2; 1992 c 499 art 8 s 19; 1993 c 224 art 9 s 40; 1995 c 233 art 2 s 56; 1997 c 187 art 4 s 5; 1Sp1997 c 4 art 7 s 36,37