SECTIONS 48240-48246 - California Statutes

EDUCATION CODE

SECTION 48240-48246

48240. The board of education of any school district and of any
county shall appoint a supervisor of attendance and such assistant
supervisors of attendance as may be necessary to supervise the
attendance of pupils in the district or county. The board shall
prescribe the duties of the supervisor and assistant supervisors of
attendance, not inconsistent with law, to include, among other duties
that may be required by the board, those specific duties related to
compulsory full-time education, truancy, work permits, compulsory
continuation education, and opportunity schools, classes, and
programs, now required of such attendance supervisors by this chapter
and Article 4 (commencing with Section 48450) of Chapter 3 and
Article 2 (commencing with Section 48630) of Chapter 4 of this part.

48241. In any city or city and county no supervisor of attendance
or assistant supervisors of attendance shall be appointed, unless he
has been lawfully certificated for the work by the county board of
education.

48242. The board of school trustees of any district of a county may
appoint a district supervisor of attendance to act under the
direction of the county supervisor of attendance.

48243. Two or more districts may unite in appointing a district
supervisor of attendance and in paying his compensation.

48244. A district may, with the approval of the county board of
education, contract with the county superintendent of schools for the
supervision of attendance of pupils in the school district. The
county superintendent of schools shall transfer from the funds of the
district to the county school service fund an amount equal to the
actual cost of providing for the supervision of attendance.

48245. In any district or districts with an average daily
attendance of 1,000 or more school children, according to the annual
school report of the last preceding school year, no district
supervisor of attendance shall be appointed, unless he has been
lawfully certificated for the work by the county board of education.

48246. The attendance supervisor, who is a full-time attendance
supervisor performing no other duties, of any county, city and
county, or school district in which any place of employment is
situated, or the probation officer of the county, may at any time
enter into any such place of employment for the purpose of examining
permits to work or to employ of all minors employed in such place of
employment, or for the purpose of investigating violations of the
provisions of the Labor Code or of the provisions of this chapter, or
Chapter 7 (commencing with Section 49100) of this part. If the
attendance supervisor or probation officer is denied entrance to such
place of employment, or if any violation of laws relating to the
education of minors is found to exist, the attendance supervisor or
probation officer shall report the denial of entrance or the
violation to the Labor Commissioner. Such report shall be made within
48 hours and shall be in writing, setting forth the fact that he has
good cause to believe that such laws are being violated in such
place of employment and describing the nature of the violation.