offending person resides, not exceeding three hundred dollars
($300) and to pay court costs or be sentenced to complete a
parenting education program offered and operated by a local
school district, medical institution or other community
resources[, and, in default of the payment of such fine and
costs or completion of the parenting program by the person so
offending, shall be sentenced to the county jail for a period
not exceeding five (5) days]. Any person sentenced to pay any
such fine may appeal to the court of common pleas of the proper
county, upon entering into a recognizance, with one or more
proper sureties, in double the amount of penalty and costs.
Before any proceedings are instituted against any parent,
guardian, or person in parental relation, for failure to comply
with the provisions of this act, the district superintendent,
attendance officer, or secretary of the board of school
directors, shall give the offending person three (3) days'
written notice of such violation. If, after such notice has been
given, the provisions of this act regarding compulsory
attendance are again violated by the persons so notified, at any
time during the term of compulsory attendance, such person, so
again offending, shall be liable under the provisions of this
section without further notice.
(2) The child and every parent, guardian or person in
parental relation must appear at a hearing established by the
magisterial district [justice] judge. If the parent, guardian or
person in parental relation charged with a summary offense under
this subsection shows that he or she took every reasonable step
to insure attendance of the child at school, he or she shall not
be convicted of the summary offense.
(3) Upon a summary conviction, the magisterial district
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