§302A-1155  Provisional entrance to school. (a)  A child may enter school provisionally upon submitting writtendocumentation from a licensed physician, physician assistant, advanced practiceregistered nurse, or an authorized representative of the department of healthstating that the child is in the process of receiving the requiredimmunizations.  Further documentation showing that the required immunizationshave been completed shall be submitted to the appropriate school official nolater than three months after the child first entered the school.  If all ofthe required immunizations cannot be completed within three months due to thelength of the minimum intervals between doses of a particular vaccine requiredby the department of health, provisional admission may be extended so long asthe child's parent or guardian provides documentation that appointments forrequired immunizations have been made and that progress toward completing theimmunizations continues in accordance with the requirements of the departmentof health.

(b)  Provisional entrance to school may besuspended by the department of health when there is danger of an epidemic fromany of the communicable diseases for which immunization is required. [L 1996, c89, pt of §2; am L 1997, c 217, §1; am L 1998, c 60, §2; am L 2000, c 109, §2;am L 2009, c 151, §8]