KRS 158.160: Notification to school by parent or guardian of child's medical condition

threatening school safety -- Exclusion of child with communicable disease from

school -- Closing of school during epidemic.

(1) A parent, legal guardian, or other person or agen cy responsible for a student shall

notify the student's school if the student has any medical condition which is defined

by the Cabinet for Health and Family Services in administrative regulation as

threatening the safety of the student or others in the school. The notification shall be

given as soon as the medical condition becomes known and upon each subsequent

enrollment by the student in a school. The principal, guidance counselor, or other

school official who has knowledge of the medical condition shal l notify the

student's teachers in writing of the nature of the medical condition.

(2) If any student is known or suspected to have or be infected with a communicable

disease or condition for which a reasonable probability for transmission exists in a

school setting, the superintendent of the district may order the student excluded

from school. The time period the student is excluded from school shall be in

accordance with generally accepted medical standards which the superintendent

shall obtain from consultation with the student's physician or the local health officer

for the county in which the school district is located. During the presence in any

district of dangerous epidemics, the board of education of the school district may

order the school closed.