13-27-19. Truancy officers--Power--Authority to apprehend--Supervisory control by secretary.
Each truancy officer has the powers of a deputy sheriff in the exercise of the officer's duties, and shall apprehend without warrant children of compulsory school age who absent themselves from the place where the children are enrolled and required to attend without an excuse, and place the children in the custody of the person having charge of the place where the children are enrolled and by law required to attend. In the administration of the officer's duties, each truancy officer is subject to the general supervisory control of the secretary of the Department of Education.
Source: SDC 1939, §15.3205; SL 1955, ch 41, ch 15, §5; SL 1971, ch 116, §11; SL 1982, ch 142, §8; SL 2003, ch 272, §63; SL 2021, ch 76, § 13.
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.