Code of Alabama - Title 16: Education - Chapter 36 - Textbooks

• Article 1 General Provisions.
• Section 16-36-1 State Textbook Committee - Creation; duties generally
  Repealed by Act 98-320, §13 effective July 1, 1998.
• Section 16-36-2 State Textbook Committee - Composition; appointment and terms of members; vacancies; qualifying affidavits of members
  Repealed by Act 98-320, §13 effective July 1, 1998.
• Section 16-36-3 State Textbook Committee - Meetings; election of chairman and secretary; compensation and expenses of members
  Repealed by Act 98-320, §13 effective July 1, 1998.
• Section 16-36-4 Local textbook selection committee - Appointment; filing of school board policies and names of members with State Superintendent of Education; affidavit and terms of members
  Repealed by Act 98-320, §13 effective July 1, 1998.
• Section 16-36-5 Local textbook selection committee - Selection of textbooks; furnishing and disposition of samples; use of textbooks not on state list
  Repealed by Act 98-320, §13 effective July 1, 1998.
• Section 16-36-6 Local textbook selection committee - Adoption to be for period of six years; limitation on textbook replacement; report of local superintendent
  Repealed by Act 98-320, §13 effective July 1, 1998.
• Section 16-36-7 When textbooks considered or reconsidered for adoption; existing adoptions; when new adoptions to be used
  Repealed by Act 98-320, §13 effective July 1, 1998.
• Section 16-36-8 Recommendations of State Textbook Committee
  Repealed by Act 98-320, §13 effective July 1, 1998.
• Section 16-36-9 Adoption of textbooks to be made at public meeting; notice; minimum number of adoptions for each course
  Repealed by Act 98-320, §13 effective July 1, 1998.
• Section 16-36-10 Adoption to be for period of six years; contract to exclude communist authors; expiration of contracts to be stabilized
  Repealed by Act 98-320, §13 effective July 1, 1998.
• Section 16-36-11 Annual advertisement for sealed bids by State Board of Education; specimen copies to accompany bids; furnishing and disposition of sample books
  Repealed by Act 98-320, §13 effective July 1, 1998.
• Section 16-36-12 Deposit required with bid; opening of bids
  Repealed by Act 98-320, §13 effective July 1, 1998.
• Section 16-36-13 Maximum price for books; contract provisions as to price; forfeiture of contract and damages; action for losses
  Repealed by Act 98-320, §13 effective July 1, 1998.
• Section 16-36-14 Authority of state board to contract for furnishing, storing or delivering textbooks
  Repealed by Act 98-320, §13 effective July 1, 1998.
• Section 16-36-15 Issuance of state-wide purchase contracts; shipment of books by publisher
  Repealed by Act 98-320, §13 effective July 1, 1998.
• Section 16-36-16 Contract provisions as to price of textbooks purchased with local funds, replacement of defective or substandard books and delivery
  Repealed by Act 98-320, §13 effective July 1, 1998.
• Section 16-36-17 Books to be shipped upon purchase orders of local boards of education; preparation and mailing of bills
  Repealed by Act 98-320, §13 effective July 1, 1998.
• Section 16-36-18 Approval of invoices by local superintendent of education; payment
  Repealed by Act 98-320, §13 effective July 1, 1998.
• Section 16-36-19 Special textbooks
  Repealed by Act 98-320, §13 effective July 1, 1998.
• Section 16-36-20 Local revolving funds; local appropriations
  Repealed by Act 98-320, §13 effective July 1, 1998.
• Section 16-36-21 Failure of contractor to furnish books; dropping of textbook
  Repealed by Act 98-320, §13 effective July 1, 1998.
• Section 16-36-22 Substitutions for state-adopted books in certain cities and counties
  Repealed by Act 98-320, §13 effective July 1, 1998.
• Section 16-36-23 Department of Education and purchasing agent to furnish contracts from which state-owned textbooks can be purchased - Schools operated under Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation
  Repealed by Act 98-320, §13 effective July 1, 1998.
• Section 16-36-24 Department of Education and purchasing agent to furnish contracts from which state-owned textbooks can be purchased - Schools operated under Alabama Institute for Deaf and Blind
  Repealed by Act 98-320, §13 effective July 1, 1998.
• Section 16-36-25 Department of Education and purchasing agent to furnish contracts from which state-owned textbooks can be purchased - Schools operated under Department of Youth Services
  Repealed by Act 98-320, §13 effective July 1, 1998.
• Section 16-36-29.1 Adequate textbooks, support, facilities and supplies
  Repealed by Act 98-320, §13 effective July 1, 1998.
• Section 16-36-30 Storage, distribution and exchange of textbooks; repair and fumigation of used textbooks
  Repealed by Act 98-320, §13 effective July 1, 1998.
• Section 16-36-31 Record of textbooks delivered to local superintendents; audit of accounting books and records; certification of required inventory; furnishing of blanks and forms
  Repealed by Act 98-320, §13 effective July 1, 1998.
• Section 16-36-32 Free textbooks to remain property of state or local school system; period of use by pupils; receipt required upon issuance; loss, abuse, etc., of textbooks
  Repealed by Act 98-320, §13 effective July 1, 1998.
• Section 16-36-34 Duty of local superintendent of education to furnish estimates of textbooks needed, to provide for storage, etc., of books and to maintain inventory and records
  Repealed by Act 98-320, §13 effective July 1, 1998.
• Section 16-36-35 Sale of textbooks to pupils; liability for loss, etc., of books
  Repealed by Act 98-320, §13 effective July 1, 1998.
• Section 16-36-36 Interest in contracts, etc., prohibited; oath of members of boards of education
  Repealed by Act 98-320, §13 effective July 1, 1998.
• Section 16-36-37 Use of other than contract books in public schools
  Repealed by Act 98-320, §13 effective July 1, 1998.
• Section 16-36-38 Charging more than contract price for school books
  Repealed by Act 98-320, §13 effective July 1, 1998.
• Section 16-36-39 Article not to be construed as appropriation of funds; administration of article subject to appropriations
  Repealed by Act 98-320, §13 effective July 1, 1998.
• Article 2 Access of College Bookstore Retailers to Course Materials Information Provided to Institution-Affiliated Bookstores.
• Section 16-36-50 Schools to develop course materials access plan for non-affiliated bookstores; requirements of plan
  (a) Not later than July 15, 1993, all two-and four-year state institutions of higher education and all state vocational and technical colleges shall, with the...
• Section 16-36-51 School faculty and departments to provide listing of requisite course materials
  To facilitate this article, all faculty members and academic departments shall provide through the established means of the institution or college a written listing of...
• Article 3 Textbooks for Public Schools; State and Local Textbook Committees.
• Section 16-36-60 State Textbook Committee
  (a) The State Textbook Committee is created. The committee shall consider the merit of textbooks offered for use in the public elementary and high schools...
• Section 16-36-60.1 Definitions
  For the purposes of this article, the following words shall have the following meanings: (1) QUALIFIED DEPOSITORY FOR TEXTBOOKS or QUALIFIED DEPOSITORY. A facility in...
• Section 16-36-61 Adoptions
  (a) Based upon the recommendations of the State Textbook Committee, the State Board of Education shall adopt textbooks from which local boards of education may...
• Section 16-36-62 Local textbook committee
  (a) A local textbook committee or committees shall be appointed by each separate local board of education. The number, size, and composition, which shall include...
• Section 16-36-63 Bids for statewide textbook contracts
  (a) Each year, before the organizational meeting of the State Textbook Committee, the State Board of Education, through the State Superintendent of Education, shall advertise...
• Section 16-36-64 Statewide textbook contracts
  (a) No contract shall be made pursuant to this article for the purchase of textbooks rejected by the State Board of Education. The only contracts...
• Section 16-36-65 Use of statewide textbook contracts
  (a) The State Department of Education in conjunction with the state Purchasing Agent shall furnish contracts from which state-adopted textbooks for the pupils and teachers...
• Section 16-36-66 Required affidavits for the State Board of Education and local boards of education
  (a) The State Superintendent of Education, members of the State Board of Education, local superintendents of education, and members of local boards of education shall...
• Section 16-36-67 Special textbooks
  (a) It shall be the duty of the State Board of Education to negotiate with publishers of textbooks or authors of textbooks for the preparation...
• Section 16-36-68 Purchasing textbooks and accountability for textbooks
  (a) The local boards of education, county commissions, and municipal councils or other governing boards of a municipality may appropriate funds for the purpose of...
• Section 16-36-69 Use of textbooks
  (a) All textbooks furnished free of charge to pupils shall be the property of the local board of education, as long as textbook funds are...
• Section 16-36-70 Adequate textbooks
  (a) The Legislature finds that textbooks and other instructional materials are among the basic tools of learning that must exist if Alabama students are to...
• Section 16-36-71 Qualified depository for textbooks
  (a) A qualified depository of textbooks shall be responsible for receiving textbook orders from the State Board of Education or local boards of education, storing...
• Section 16-36-72 Digital Depository Study Commission
  (a) There is hereby established a Digital Depository Study Commission which shall consist of 12 members to be appointed as follows: (1) Two members to...

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