23-07-16. Child having contagious or infectious disease prohibited from attending school - Exception

23-07-16. Child having contagious or infectious disease prohibited from attending school - Exception. Except as provided by section 23-07-16.1, no principal, superintendent, or teacher of any school, and no parent or guardian of any minor child, may permit any child having any significant contagious or infectious disease, or any child residing in any house in which any such disease exists or has recently existed, to attend any public or private school until permitted to do so under the regulations of the local board of health.