256.46 - RULES FOR PARTICIPATION IN EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES BY CERTAIN CHILDREN.
256.46 RULES FOR PARTICIPATION IN EXTRACURRICULAR
ACTIVITIES BY CERTAIN CHILDREN.
The state board shall adopt rules that permit a child who does not
meet the residence requirements for participation in extracurricular
interscholastic contests or competitions sponsored or administered by
an organization as defined in section 280.13 to participate in the
contests or competitions immediately if the child is duly enrolled in
a school, is otherwise eligible to participate, and meets one of the
following circumstances or a similar circumstance: the child has
been adopted; the child is placed under foster or shelter care; the
child is living with one of the child's parents as a result of
divorce, separation, death, or other change in the child's parents'
marital relationship, or pursuant to other court-ordered decree or
order of custody; the child is a foreign exchange student, unless
undue influence was exerted to place the child for primarily athletic
purposes; the child has been placed in a juvenile correctional
facility; the child is a ward of the court or the state; the child is
a participant in a substance abuse or mental health program; or the
child is enrolled in an accredited nonpublic high school because the
child's district of residence has entered into a whole grade sharing
agreement for the pupil's grade with another district. The rules
shall permit a child who is otherwise eligible to participate, but
who does not meet one of the foregoing or similar circumstances
relating to residence requirements, to participate at any level of
competition other than the varsity level. For purposes of this
section and section 282.18, "varsity" means the highest level of
competition offered by one school or school district against the
highest level of competition offered by an opposing school or school
district. Section History: Recent Form
90 Acts, ch 1049, §1; 92 Acts, ch 1135, §1; 93 Acts, ch 101, §
201; 2002 Acts, ch 1129, §1; 2005 Acts, ch 79, §1; 2006 Acts, ch
1152, §20
Referred to in § 282.18