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Terms Used In Vermont Statutes Title 16 Sec. 1054

  • Periodic released time: means time, occurring at least once weekly, during which public school students are released from school to attend religious education courses sponsored by and given under the authority of a religious group. See
  • Person: shall include any natural person, corporation, municipality, the State of Vermont or any department, agency, or subdivision of the State, and any partnership, unincorporated association, or other legal entity. See
  • Public school: means an elementary school or secondary school operated by a school district. See

§ 1054. Prohibitions

(a) No person shall conduct a periodic released time religious education course on public school property.

(b) No periodic released time program shall interfere with the completion by any student of requirements for graduation as established from time to time by the Agency.

(c) No administrator or teacher in a public school cooperating in a periodic released time program shall direct a student to take or not to take a periodic released time course. (Added 1969, No. 260 (Adj. Sess.), eff. Sept. 1, 1970; amended 2013, No. 92 (Adj. Sess.), § 112, eff. Feb. 14, 2014.)