13-27-11. Failure to send child to school as misdemeanor.
Any person having control of a child of compulsory school age who fails to have the child attend school, as required by the provisions of this title, or provide alternative instruction pursuant to § 13-27-3, is guilty of a Class 2 misdemeanor for the first offense. For each subsequent offense, a violator of this section is guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor.
Source: SDC 1939, §15.9915; SL 1955, ch 41, ch 17, §14; SDC Supp 1960, §15.9914; SL 1982, ch 86, §139; SL 1982, ch 142, §2; SL 2021, ch 76, § 9.
Structure South Dakota Codified Laws
Chapter 27 - Compulsory School Attendance
Section 13-27-1.1 - Religious exemption after eighth grade.
Section 13-27-1.2 - Promulgation of rules on high school equivalency testing.
Section 13-27-2 - Child excused from school.
Section 13-27-3 - Alternative instruction--Notification--Requirements.
Section 13-27-3.1 - Birth certificate or affidavit to be submitted--Violation as misdemeanor.
Section 13-27-3.2 - Maintenance of birth certificate by school as permanent record.
Section 13-27-6 - Child excused because of illness in family.
Section 13-27-7 - Notification of alternative instruction.
Section 13-27-8 - Appeal on attendance matters to state board --Finality of decision.
Section 13-27-9 - Record of certificates of excuse--Copies to secretary and place of instruction.
Section 13-27-11 - Failure to send child to school as misdemeanor.
Section 13-27-16 - Warnings by school boards to send children to school--Report to truancy officer.
Section 13-27-17 - Investigations and records of truancy officer.
Section 13-27-23 - Penalties invoked on finding of guilty.
Section 13-27-28 - Disobedience of circuit court order as contempt.