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TENNESSEE COMPILATION OF SELECTED LAWS ON CHILDREN, YOUTH AND FAMILIES, 2011 EDITION

TENNESSEE CODE ANNOTATED

Title 49 Education

Chapter 6 Elementary and Secondary Education

Part 30 Attendance

49-6-3008. Truancy - Inspections and investigations.

(a) The director of schools of any local school system, or the director of schools' designated representative, has the right to visit and enter any office, factory or business house employing children belonging to schools within the director of schools' jurisdiction and to require properly attested certificates of attendance or employment permit of any child in a day school or a valid work permit for the child.

(b) When reasonable doubt exists as to the age of any child who violates this part, the director of schools or the director of schools' designated representative shall require satisfactory proof of age.

(c) Any parent, guardian or other person having charge or control of any child embraced within this part who makes a false statement concerning the age of the child or the time that the child has attended school commits a Class C misdemeanor.

Acts 1947, ch. 87, §§ 14, 15; C. Supp. 1950, §§ 2442.14, 2442.15; Acts 1974, ch. 654, § 100; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), §§ 49-1721, 49-1722; Acts 1989, ch. 591, § 113.

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