Section 16-24-11 Cancellation of contracts - By teacher. - Alabama Statutes

Section 16-24-11

Cancellation of contracts - By teacher.

No teacher, whether in continuing service status or not, shall be permitted to cancel his or her contract during the school term for which said contract is in effect, nor for a period of 45 days previous to the beginning of such school term, unless such cancellation is mutually agreed upon; any such teacher shall be permitted to cancel his or her contract at any other time by giving five days' written notice to the employing board of education. Any teacher cancelling his or her contract in any other manner than in this section provided shall be deemed guilty of unprofessional conduct, and the State Superintendent of Education is hereby authorized to revoke or suspend the certificate of such teacher.

(Acts 1939, No. 499, p. 759, §9; Code 1940, T. 52, §361(1); Acts 1949, No. 250, p. 373, §1; Acts 1953, No. 773, p. 1040, §1; Acts 1973, No. 1079, p. 1835, §1.)