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2015 South Carolina Code of Laws
Title 59 - Education
CHAPTER 63 - PUPILS GENERALLY
ARTICLE 1 General Provisions- Section 59-63-20. Age of attendance.
- Section 59-63-30. Qualifications for attendance.
- Section 59-63-31. Additional qualifications for attendance at public school or particular public school.
- Section 59-63-32. Requirements to enroll child in public school; affidavit; penalties for providing false information.
- Section 59-63-35. Nonresident military enrollment in South Carolina high school diploma program.
- Section 59-63-40. Discrimination on account of race, creed, color or national origin prohibited.
- Section 59-63-45. Reimbursement for attending another school district
- Section 59-63-50. Fingerprinting of pupils.
- Section 59-63-55. Report required of certain injuries.
- Section 59-63-60. School guards required to be safely attired.
- Section 59-63-65. Class size reduction; funding; facilities.
- Section 59-63-70. High school student participation in independent organized sports teams.
- Section 59-63-75. Publication of guidelines regarding concussions; removal from play for concussion; immunity; definitions.
- Section 59-63-80. Development of policies governing individual health care plans for students with special health care needs; definitions; written statements.
- Section 59-63-90. Notice of available health-related services and rights.
- Section 59-63-95. Epinephrine auto-injectors; obtaining, storing, dispensing, administering, and self-administering; immunity from liability.
- Section 59-63-100. Participation in interscholastic activities of public school district by home school, charter school, and Governor's school students.
- Section 59-63-110. Citation of article.
- Section 59-63-120. Definitions.
- Section 59-63-130. Prohibited conduct; reports by witnesses.
- Section 59-63-140. Local school districts to adopt policies prohibiting harassment; required components; model policies by State Board of Education; bullying prevention programs.
- Section 59-63-150. Availability of civil or criminal redress; immunity of reporting school employee or volunteer.
- Section 59-63-210. Grounds for which trustees may expel, suspend, or transfer pupils; petition for readmission; expulsion, suspension, or transfer.
- Section 59-63-217. Barring enrollment of student; grounds; notice and hearing; duration of bar.
- Section 59-63-220. Suspension of pupils by administrator.
- Section 59-63-230. Notices of suspensions; conferences with parents or guardian.
- Section 59-63-235. Expulsion of student determined to have brought firearm to school.
- Section 59-63-240. Expulsion for remainder of year; hearings.
- Section 59-63-250. Transfer of pupils.
- Section 59-63-260. Corporal punishment.
- Section 59-63-270. Regulation or prohibition of clubs or like activities.
- Section 59-63-275. Student hazing prohibited; definitions.
- Section 59-63-280. "Paging device" defined; adoption of policies addressing student possession.
- Section 59-63-310. Short title.
- Section 59-63-320. Reporting form.
- Section 59-63-330. Quarterly and annual reports.
- Section 59-63-333. School crime requirements to conform to federal "No Child Left Behind Act".
- Section 59-63-335. Failure of school administrator to report criminal conduct; liability.
- Section 59-63-340. Promulgation of regulations.
- Section 59-63-350. Local law enforcement.
- Section 59-63-360. Attorney General; representation of school districts.
- Section 59-63-370. Student's conviction or delinquency adjudication for certain offenses; notification of senior administrator at student's school; placement of information in permanent school records.
- Section 59-63-380. School official reporting school-related crimes; immunity.
- Section 59-63-390. Inclusion of school crime report act summary in student handbooks.
- Section 59-63-410. Enrollment of pupils.
- Section 59-63-420. Effect of transfer on enrollment lists.
- Section 59-63-425. Transfer upon violation of restraining order; interscholastic activity eligibility.
- Section 59-63-430. Board shall furnish copies of relevant statutes to teachers.
- Section 59-63-440. Violations of Sections 59-63-410 to 59-63-430.
- Section 59-63-450. No child shall be counted in enrollment more than once.
- Section 59-63-460. Annual reports.
- Section 59-63-470. Transfer of pupils when enrollment of such pupils threatens to disturb peace.
- Section 59-63-480. Attendance at schools in adjacent county.
- Section 59-63-485. Transfer of students from Fairfield County School District to Chester County School District; provision for payment of funds; State Superintendent of Education to settle disputes.
- Section 59-63-490. Transfer to adjoining school district.
- Section 59-63-500. Transfer without consent of school district of residence.
- Section 59-63-510. County board of education authorized to order transfer.
- Section 59-63-520. Consent required for transfer.
- Section 59-63-530. Credit on tuition for taxes paid.
- Section 59-63-540. Determination of pupil enrollment in primary or secondary schools for purpose of distributing state funds on per pupil basis.
- Section 59-63-710. School lunch division in State Department of Education.
- Section 59-63-720. County school lunch supervisors.
- Section 59-63-730. Employment and discharge of county school lunch supervisors.
- Section 59-63-740. Duties of county school lunch supervisors.
- Section 59-63-750. Compensation of school lunch supervisors; office space and equipment.
- Section 59-63-760. State's school lunch policy.
- Section 59-63-765. School breakfast program.
- Section 59-63-770. Funds provided by State Fiscal Accountability Authority in event Federal Government resumes distribution of commodities to schools.
- Section 59-63-780. Inability to pay for school lunches; availability of federal funds.
- Section 59-63-790. School districts to implement breakfast program in each school.
- Section 59-63-800. Waiver of school breakfast requirement.
- Section 59-63-910. Monthly fire drills required; penalty.
- Section 59-63-920. Certificate of compliance; collection of penalty.
- Section 59-63-930. Printing and posting of relevant statutes.
- Section 59-63-1110. Consent to search person or his effects.
- Section 59-63-1120. Searches by school administrators or officials with or without probable cause.
- Section 59-63-1130. Searches by principals or their designees.
- Section 59-63-1140. Strip searches prohibited.
- Section 59-63-1150. Compliance with case law; training of school administrators.
- Section 59-63-1160. Posting of notice; costs of notice to be paid by State; effect of failure to post notice.
- Section 59-63-1300. Alternative school programs established.
- Section 59-63-1310. Alternative school programs; individual or cooperative programs; funding; sites.
- Section 59-63-1320. Referral or placement of students in alternative school programs.
- Section 59-63-1330. Discretion of school board.
- Section 59-63-1340. Scheduling, administrative structure, curriculum and setting.
- Section 59-63-1350. Eligibility for funding.
- Section 59-63-1360. Transportation.
- Section 59-63-1370. Teachers at alternative school programs; staff development.
- Section 59-63-1380. Funding for alternative school programs.
- Section 59-63-1390. Regulations; annual review.
- Section 59-63-1400. Review; technical assistance.
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