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156.210 Powers of chief state school officer.

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156.210 Powers of chief state school officer. (1) The chief state school officer shall have access to the papers, books and records of all teachers, trustees, superintendents, or other public school officials. (2) He may administer oaths and may examine witnesses under oath in any part of the state in any matter pertaining to the public schools, and may cause the testimony to <br>be reduced to writing. He may issue process to compel attendance of witnesses <br>before him and compel witnesses to testify in any investigation he is authorized to <br>make. (3) When he or his assistants find any mismanagement, misconduct, violation of law, or wrongful or improper use of any district or state school fund, or neglect in the <br>performance of duty on the part of any official, he shall report the same, and any <br>other violation of the school laws discovered by him, to the Kentucky Board of <br>Education, which shall, through the chief state school officer or one (1) of his <br>assistants, call in the county attorney or the Commonwealth's attorney in the county <br>or district where the violation occurs, and the attorney so called in shall assist in the <br>indictment, prosecution, and conviction of the accused. If prosecution is not <br>warrantable, the Kentucky Board of Education may rectify and regulate all such <br>matters. Effective: July 15, 1996 <br>History: Amended 1996 Ky. Acts ch. 362, sec. 6, effective July 15, 1996. -- Amended 1990 Ky. Acts ch. 476, Pt. IV, sec. 137, effective July 13, 1990. -- Amended 1978 <br>Ky. Acts ch. 155, sec. 82, effective June 17, 1978. -- Recodified 1942 Ky. Acts <br>ch. 208, sec. 1, effective October 1, 1942, from Ky. Stat. secs. 4384-12, 4384-15.