3206 - Attendance of minors upon part time instruction.

§ 3206. Attendance of minors upon part time instruction.  1. The board  of  education  of  a  city  or district shall have power to require each  employed minor from sixteen to seventeen years of  age  to  attend  upon  part time instruction in accordance with the provisions of this section.    2.  A  minor  who  is  a graduate of a four-year high school course of  study shall not be required to attend upon part time instruction.    3. The attendance of an employed minor required to  attend  upon  part  time  instruction  by  a  board  of  education  in  accordance  with the  provisions of this section shall be for not less  than  four,  nor  more  than  eight  hours  per week, and on such day or days of the week as the  school authorities may determine.    4. An  employed  minor,  while  temporarily  unemployed,  or  a  minor  attending  part  time  school  under  the provisions of subdivision two,  paragraph b, of section thirty-two hundred five, required to attend part  time instruction  by  a  board  of  education  in  accordance  with  the  provisions  of this section, shall attend upon part time instruction for  not less than twenty hours a week. An employed minor shall be deemed  to  be temporarily unemployed until he reenters lawful employment or attends  upon full time day instruction.    5.  The  absence  of  an  employed  minor  during a rush season may be  permitted by the school authorities on condition that the minor attend a  greater number of hours per week thereafter until the  absence  is  made  up,  and  provided  that  the  minor's  employer  is  a party to such an  agreement.    6. An absence due to unlawful cause may be required to be made  up  by  attendance in excess of the number of hours per week otherwise required.    7. The school authorities of a city or district shall have power after  a  hearing  to establish a half-time system or program of employment and  required attendance at part time schools for minors who are included  by  the provisions of this section.    8.  Each  minor  above  the  age of sixteen years and under the age of  eighteen years, who is not in regular  full-time  day  attendance  at  a  public,  private  or  parochial  school or who is regularly and lawfully  employed in some occupation or service, unless such minor has  completed  a  four  year secondary course of instruction approved by the regents of  the university, shall attend a part-time school or class in the city  or  district  in  which  such minor resides or may be employed, provided the  board of education of such city  or  district  has  enacted  appropriate  rules  and  regulations  requiring  attendance at such part-time schools  under the provisions of section forty-six hundred one.  Such  attendance  shall  be  subject  to  the  provisions  of article ninety-three of this  chapter.