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2014 Code of Alabama
Title 16 - EDUCATION.
Chapter 36 - TEXTBOOKS.
Article 1 General Provisions.- Section 16-36-1 - State Textbook Committee - Creation; duties generally.
- Section 16-36-2 - State Textbook Committee - Composition; appointment and terms of members; vacancies; qualifying affidavits of members.
- Section 16-36-3 - State Textbook Committee - Meetings; election of chairman and secretary; compensation and expenses of members.
- 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.
- Section 16-36-5 - Local textbook selection committee - Selection of textbooks; furnishing and disposition of samples; use of textbooks not on state list.
- Section 16-36-6 - Local textbook selection committee - Adoption to be for period of six years; limitation on textbook replacement; report of local superintendent.
- Section 16-36-7 - When textbooks considered or reconsidered for adoption; existing adoptions; when new adoptions to be used.
- Section 16-36-8 - Recommendations of State Textbook Committee.
- Section 16-36-9 - Adoption of textbooks to be made at public meeting; notice; minimum number of adoptions for each course.
- Section 16-36-10 - Adoption to be for period of six years; contract to exclude communist authors; expiration of contracts to be stabilized.
- 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.
- Section 16-36-12 - Deposit required with bid; opening of bids.
- Section 16-36-13 - Maximum price for books; contract provisions as to price; forfeiture of contract and damages; action for losses.
- Section 16-36-14 - Authority of state board to contract for furnishing, storing or delivering textbooks.
- Section 16-36-15 - Issuance of state-wide purchase contracts; shipment of books by publisher.
- Section 16-36-16 - Contract provisions as to price of textbooks purchased with local funds, replacement of defective or substandard books and delivery.
- Section 16-36-17 - Books to be shipped upon purchase orders of local boards of education; preparation and mailing of bills.
- Section 16-36-18 - Approval of invoices by local superintendent of education; payment.
- Section 16-36-19 - Special textbooks.
- Section 16-36-20 - Local revolving funds; local appropriations.
- Section 16-36-21 - Failure of contractor to furnish books; dropping of textbook.
- Section 16-36-22 - Substitutions for state-adopted books in certain cities and counties.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Section 16-36-29.1 - Adequate textbooks, support, facilities and supplies.
- Section 16-36-30 - Storage, distribution and exchange of textbooks; repair and fumigation of used textbooks.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Section 16-36-35 - Sale of textbooks to pupils; liability for loss, etc., of books.
- Section 16-36-36 - Interest in contracts, etc., prohibited; oath of members of boards of education.
- Section 16-36-37 - Use of other than contract books in public schools.
- Section 16-36-38 - Charging more than contract price for school books.
- Section 16-36-39 - Article not to be construed as appropriation of funds; administration of article subject to appropriations.
- Section 16-36-50 - Schools to develop course materials access plan for non-affiliated bookstores; requirements of plan.
- Section 16-36-51 - School faculty and departments to provide listing of requisite course materials.
- Section 16-36-60 - State Textbook Committee.
- Section 16-36-61 - Adoptions.
- Section 16-36-62 - Local textbook committee.
- Section 16-36-63 - Bids for statewide textbook contracts.
- Section 16-36-64 - Statewide textbook contracts.
- Section 16-36-65 - Use of statewide textbook contracts.
- Section 16-36-66 - Required affidavits for the State Board of Education and local boards of education.
- Section 16-36-67 - Special textbooks.
- Section 16-36-68 - Purchasing textbooks and accountability for textbooks.
- Section 16-36-69 - Use of textbooks.
- Section 16-36-70 - Adequate textbooks.
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