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158.160 Notification to school by parent or guardian of child's medical condition threatening school safety -- Exclusion of child with communicable disease from school -- Closing of school during

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158.160 Notification to school by parent or guardian of child's medical condition threatening school safety -- Exclusion of child with communicable disease from <br>school -- Closing of school during epidemic. (1) A parent, legal guardian, or other person or agency responsible for a student shall notify the student's school if the student has any medical condition which is defined <br>by the Cabinet for Health and Family Services in administrative regulation as <br>threatening the safety of the student or others in the school. The notification shall be <br>given as soon as the medical condition becomes known and upon each subsequent <br>enrollment by the student in a school. The principal, guidance counselor, or other <br>school official who has knowledge of the medical condition shall notify the <br>student's teachers in writing of the nature of the medical condition. (2) If any student is known or suspected to have or be infected with a communicable disease or condition for which a reasonable probability for transmission exists in a <br>school setting, the superintendent of the district may order the student excluded <br>from school. The time period the student is excluded from school shall be in <br>accordance with generally accepted medical standards which the superintendent <br>shall obtain from consultation with the student's physician or the local health officer <br>for the county in which the school district is located. During the presence in any <br>district of dangerous epidemics, the board of education of the school district may <br>order the school closed. Effective: June 20, 2005 <br>History: Amended 2005 Ky. Acts ch. 99, sec. 134, effective June 20, 2005. -- Amended 1998 Ky. Acts ch. 426, sec. 116, effective July 15, 1998. -- Amended 1992 Ky. Acts <br>ch. 393, sec. 1, effective July 14, 1992. -- Amended 1990 Ky. Acts ch. 213, sec. 1, <br>effective July 13, 1990; and ch. 476, Pt. V, sec. 402, effective July 13, 1990. -- <br>Recodified 1942 Ky. Acts ch. 208, sec. 1, effective October 1, 1942, from Ky. Stat. <br>sec. 4399-59. Legislative Research Commission Note (7/13/90). The Act amending this section prevails over the repeal and reenactment in House Bill 940, Acts Ch. 476, pursuant to <br>Section 653(1) of Acts Ch. 476.