TITLE 17. EDUCATION

CHAPTER 2. TEACHERS AND EMPLOYEES

PART I. GENERAL PROVISIONS

17:416.11       Discipline of pupils; limitation of liability

 A. No teacher, principal, or administrator in a public school system or in an approved nonpublic school shall be personally liable for any act or failure to act in the directing of or disciplining of school children under his care and supervision, unless such act or failure to act was malicious and willfully and deliberately intended to cause bodily harm.

 B. This Section shall not be applicable to the operation, use, or maintenance of any motor vehicle.

Added by Acts 1997, No. 401, §1.