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