280.13A - SHARING INTERSCHOLASTIC ACTIVITIES.
280.13A SHARING INTERSCHOLASTIC ACTIVITIES.
If a school district or nonpublic school does not provide an
interscholastic activity for its students, the board of directors of
that school district or the authorities in charge of the nonpublic
school may complete an agreement with another school district or
nonpublic school to provide for the eligibility of its students in
interscholastic activities provided by that other school district or
nonpublic school. A copy of each agreement completed under this
section shall be filed with the appropriate organization as
organization is defined in section 280.13 not later than April 30 of
the school year preceding the school year in which the agreement
takes effect, unless an exception is granted by the organization for
good cause. An agreement completed under this section shall be
deemed approved unless denied by the governing organization within
ten days after its receipt. A governing organization shall determine
whether an agreement would substantially prejudice the
interscholastic activities of other schools. An agreement denied by
a governing organization under this section may be appealed to the
state board of education under chapter 290.
For the purpose of this section, "substantial prejudice"
includes, but is not limited to, situations where shared
interscholastic activities may result in an unfair domination of an
interscholastic activity or substantial disruption of activity
classifications and management.
It is not necessary that school districts that are parties to an
agreement under this section must be engaged in sharing academic
programming and receiving supplementary weighting under section
257.11. Section History: Recent Form
87 Acts, ch 224, § 53; 88 Acts, ch 1134, § 62; 89 Acts, ch 135, §
81; 2002 Acts, ch 1129, §3