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urn: urn:us-la:rs:17:3012
citation: "R.S. 17:3012"
status: active
breadcrumb: "Title 17 › Chapter 19-A"
acts_citations:
  - { year: 2024, number: 293, section: 1, effective_date: 2024-05-28, role: enactment }
  - { year: 2024, number: 688, section: 1, effective_date: 2024-06-19, role: amendment }
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# Selection; responsibility; certification

A. The school chaplain shall be selected by and be responsible to the local school officials in each city, parish, or other local public school system.

B. Any school chaplain employed or accepted as a volunteer pursuant to the provisions of this Section is not required to be certified by the State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education.

C. Nothing in this Section shall prohibit any school board from employing or accepting as a volunteer more than one chaplain for any school.