72-1126. Community service programs; duties of state board.
72-1126
72-1126. Community service programs; duties of stateboard.(a) The state board of education shall provide for acommunity service program to be offered to all accredited high schools in thisstate.
(b) As used in this section, the term "community service" means a serviceperformed by a high school student, without monetarycompensation orremuneration, for the purpose of benefiting the student's community.The service performed may include, but not by way of limitation, mentoring ortutoring elementary school pupils, assisting in a nursing home or adult carecenter, providing lawn care or performing other tasks for senior citizens ordisabled persons, assisting in a homeless shelter or a soup kitchen, organizingor assisting in fund raisers for disaster victims and other needy persons,assisting community-based nonprofit agencies that provide programs and servicesfor low-income people, the disabled and the elderly, assisting fraternalorganizations in charitable activities.
History: L. 2002, ch. 167, § 8; July 1.