20-4-202. Teacher and specialist certification registration. (1) Any person employed as a teacher, specialist, principal, or district superintendent shall register his certificate or the district shall register its emergency authorization of employment for a teacher with the county superintendent of the county wherein he is employed in order to validate his employment status and permit payment under his employment contract. If a teacher or specialist does not register his certificate with the county superintendent within 60 calendar days after he begins to perform his services, he shall not be eligible to receive any further compensation under his contract of employment until he has registered his certificate. After the schools of a district have been open for 60 calendar days in the current school fiscal year, the county superintendent shall notify each district of the county of each teacher or specialist who has registered his current valid certificate, and the district shall not pay any teacher who has not registered his certificate until the county superintendent does notify the district of such registration.
     (2) A teacher or specialist employed by a joint district shall register his certificate with the county superintendent of the county in which he is working. A teacher or specialist employed by a special education cooperative shall register his certificate with the county superintendent of the county in which the special education cooperative is based.

     History: En. 75-6106 by Sec. 87, Ch. 5, L. 1971; amd. Sec. 3, Ch. 277, L. 1977; R.C.M. 1947, 75-6106; amd. Sec. 15, Ch. 511, L. 1979; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 330, L. 1987.