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    Effective September 1, 2001 New Arizona Blood Alcohol Content limit -- the legal limit for alcohol in your system (blood alcohol content) to be considered Driving Under the Influence (DUI) has just been lowered from .10 to .08 in Arizona. Although it is illegal for you to drink if you are not 21 years of age, this new law lowers the threshold for being legally drunk while driving. There are very serious consequences to drinking and driving...

    Effective July 18, 2000 New Graduated Drivers License Law. Read More in the LFK driving laws section...

    Effective Immediately New “School Threats” Law

    Under Arizona Revised Statute 13-2911, there are very specific penalties for any person who commits “interference or disruption” to an educational institution.

    You will notice that we have defined specific words or phrases in the glossary at the bottom of the page. We did this to help you understand how these words are defined because the law is applied under these specific definitions. To locate the full text of this law, go to ARS 13-2911 (external link).

    A person commits interference with or disruption of an educational institution by doing any of the following:

    1. Threatening to cause physical injury to any employee of or any person attending an educational institution.

    2. Threatening to cause damage to any educational institution, property of any educational institution, or property of any person attending an educational institution.

    3. Knowingly goes onto or remains on the property of an educational institution for the purpose of interfering with or disrupting the lawful use of the property, or in any manner that interferes with the lawful use of the property by others.

    4. Knowingly refuses to obey a lawful order to leave the property by a school official, officer or employee of an educational institutional.

    A person found to be in violation of this law as described in paragraphs 1 or 2 above may be charged with a Class 6 Felony. It does not matter if the above actions were not directed to any specific individual, educational institution or property of an educational institutional. A person found to be in violation of this law as described in paragraphs 3 or 4 as described above may be charged with a Class 1 Misdemeanor.

    Expulsion
    In addition to the existing reasons for expulsion, a school district or charter school is now required to expel from school for at least one year, a pupil who is determined to have violated any section of this statute. A school district or charter school may modify the expulsion requirement on a case by case basis if the pupil participates in a mediation, community service, restitution or other programs in which the pupil takes responsibility for the results of the threat. A parent or guardian may also be required to participate in mediation, community service, restitution or other programs in which the parent or guardian takes responsibility with the pupil for the threat. A school district may also reassign a pupil to an alternative education program.  ARS 15-841

    Glossary

    ARS: Arizona Revised Statutes is the way in which our laws are organized. Every state law is organized under a specific title. For instance, ARS 13-2911 means that you can find this law under the title 13 which relates to the criminal laws of our state.

    Educational institution: Any university, college, community college, high school, middle and elementary school in this state.

    Interference with or disruption of: Causing an employee of an educational institution to take action to protect the institution or the employees, students or property.


    Comments
    1 thru 5 of 20 comments    [ 1 ]  2   3   4    
    On 04/23/09
    from AL said:
    kids should be willing mto get an education if they dont wANT ONE THATS THERE FALT.
    On 09/24/07
    Amy from AZ said:
    The laws are pointless. They don't even enforce them and when they do they should really investiage instead of he said she said. Its non sense.
    On 09/21/07
    gomx from AZ said:
    i think bully laws are stupid because they are not enforced by schools.
    On 02/23/07
    caroli from NJ said:
    I think bullying laws like we have here in NJ are essential for students that want a decent education but are afraid for their own safty so they NEED an adult (or more like the LAW) to step in for them!
    On 11/18/06
    skinner from AZ said:
    I know a girl last year at my high school, one day she was very mad and wrote down a list of people she hated, the school took that as a hit list and expelled her for one year. Then for myself, a student went to the disipline officer and told them i was planning on bring a weapon to school, they suspended me with no proof whatsoever except the word of another student who dislike me. Please get rid of these stupid laws.
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