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Title 11 : Municipal Offenses
Chapter 8 : Miscellaneous

11-803 : State compulsory attendance law.

  1. A child who has not reached his eighteenth (18th) birthday, and being subject to the state compulsory attendance law, Tennessee Code Annotated, § 49-6-3001, shall not loiter, idle, wander or play in or upon the public streets, highways, alleys, parks or other public places, buildings, businesses, places of amusement and entertainment, vacant lots or other unsupervised places during those hours he is required to be in school under the state compulsory school attendance law. Further, no child shall be taken into custody for violation of this section until an investigation with the proper school officials has been made to determine if the child is required to be in school.
  2. No parent, guardian or other adult person who has been delegated the care and custody of such child under the age of eighteen (18), shall knowingly permit such child to violate the provisions of this section. A parent, guardian or other person who has been delegated the care or custody of such child found to be in violation of this section shall be held punishable. (Ord. #96-03, Nov. 1996)