TITLE 2. ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION 33000-64100›DIVISION 4. INSTRUCTION AND SERVICES 46000-65001›PART 27. PUPILS 48000-49703›CHAPTER 4. Attendance at Adjustment Schools 48600-48666›ARTICLE 1. Twenty-four Hour Elementary Schools 48600-48618

§ 48613

California Education Code · 2020-11 edition · updated 2026-10-04 · California

Any pupil who absents himself from any 24-hour elementary school without permission being first obtained from the principal shall be deemed an habitual truant within the meaning of Section 601 of the Welfare and Institutions Code, and dealt with as such.

Any person who contributes to the absence of any pupil from the school without permission first having been obtained from the principal, or advises, connives at, or aids or assists in such absence or conceals any pupil after such absence is guilty of a misdemeanor.

(Enacted by Stats. 1976, Ch. 1010.)

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