CODE OF VIRGINIA

ATTENDANCE OFFICER TO MAKE LIST OF CHILDREN NOT ENROLLED; DUTIES OF ATTENDANCE
OFFICER (§ 22.1-261)

The attendance officer or the division superintendent or his designee shall
check the reports submitted pursuant to subsection A of § 22.1-260 with reports
from the State Registrar of Vital Records and Health Statistics. From these
reports and from any other reliable source the attendance officer or the
division superintendent or his designee shall, within five days after receiving
all reports submitted pursuant to subsection A of § 22.1-260, make a list of
the names of children who are not enrolled in any school and who are not exempt
from school attendance. It shall be the duty of the attendance officer, on
behalf of the local school board, to investigate all cases of nonenrollment and,
when no valid reason is found therefor, to notify the parent, guardian or other
person having control of the child to require the attendance of such child at
the school within three days from the date of such notice.

HISTORY: Code 1950, § 22-275.10; 1959, Ex. Sess., c. 72; 1980, c. 559; 1996,
cc. 891, 964; 1999, c. 526; 2010, cc. 386, 597, 629.