(A) Notice:
1. Pursuant to 65 Illinois Compiled Statutes 5/11-5-9, a school may disclose student's attendance records to the Canton police department for the enforcement of this chapter. The Canton police department will not disclose the attendance information to any other individual or entity, without prior written consent of the parent or guardian except as necessary to enforce this chapter or as provided under state law. A school will not transmit attendance records that pertain to a student's attendance on or after the date the student's parent gives the school notice that the parent is withdrawing the student from the school.
2. The police department will issue a written notice to the truant or the truant's parent via hand delivery or via regular mail to the last address on file with the school only upon receipt of a truant's attendance record.
3. If the violator fails to appear at the Canton police department to pay the requisite fine within ten (10) days from the date the notice was delivered or mailed, a citation will be issued to the violator.
(B) Penalty:
1. Any person guilty of a violation of this chapter, shall be fined a penalty of no less than fifty dollars ($50.00) for the first violation in one school year.
2. Any person guilty of a violation of this chapter, shall be fined a penalty of no less than seventy five dollars ($75.00) for the second violation in one school year.
3. Any person guilty of a violation of this chapter, shall be fined a penalty of no less than one hundred dollars ($100.00) for the third and any subsequent violations in one school year.
(C) Community Service: Community service work may be sentenced in addition to, or as an alternative to, any fines issued. Where a violator fails to perform the community service, the term of community service may be increased or may be converted to a fine.
(D) Separate Offenses: Each day or portion for each day that a person is truant shall constitute a separate offense. (Ord. 2033, 5-18-2011)