Any child residing in a school district that does not offer the grade which such child is entitled to pursue shall be entitled to be transferred to any school district inside or outside of the transportation area in which such student resides which offers the grade which he is entitled to pursue, hereinafter "receiving district". Nothing in this section shall be construed as preventing the approval of any other kind of transfer for which such student is eligible as elsewhere provided by law.

The due and outstanding obligation of any school district to pay any transfer fee required by this section for the attendance of a student in the year prior to the effective date of this act is hereby canceled.

Laws 1971, HB 1155, c. 281, § 8-101, emerg. eff. July 2, 1971; Amended by Laws 1989, HB 1372, c. 250, § 1, eff. July 1, 1989; Amended by Laws 1991, HB 1508, c. 3, § 10, emerg. eff. July 1, 1991; Amended by Laws 1991, HB 1236, c. 280, § 62, emerg. eff. July 1, 1991.