Section 16-24-13

Effect of leave of absence on continuing service status.

Leave of absence for a period of one year for good cause may be granted to a teacher by the employing board of education without the impairment of the continuing status of a teacher; provided, that for valid reason the board may extend the leave of absence for one additional year; and provided further, that upon the request of a teacher who has heretofore or who shall hereafter enter the military service of the United States at a time when there is an existing state of war between the United States of America and any other country, leave of absence shall be granted to such teacher for the duration of the war and until the beginning of the school year next succeeding the date on which said teacher is released from said military service; and, on or before such date, said teacher must give written notice to the employing board of education whether or not he desires to be reemployed by said board. If such notice is not received by the employing board of education, or if the teacher notifies the employing board on or before the date specified above that he does not desire reemployment, the employing board has no further responsibility with respect to reemployment of said teacher. The term "military service of the United States," as used herein, shall include the Army of the United States, the United States Navy, the Marine Corps, the Coast Guard, the Army Specialist Corps, the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps and the Women's Volunteer Reserve of the United States Navy, those persons commissioned in the public health service or those persons entering into the service of any similar organization heretofore or hereafter formed by the government of the United States. A teacher entering the military service of the United States, who is not on continuing service status but who has accumulated one or more years of teaching experience with an employing board of education immediately prior to entering military service, shall be given credit for such experience with the employing board of education in attaining continuing service status, if such teacher is reemployed by said board of education within one year after the release of that teacher from military service.

(Acts 1939, No. 499, p. 759, § 11; Code 1940, T. 52, §361(3); Acts 1943, No. 313, p. 300; Acts 1953, No. 773, p. 1040, § 1; Acts 1973, No. 1079, p. 1835, §1.)