Chapter36. TEXTBOOKS.  


Article 1. General Provisions.
§ 16-36-1. State Textbook Committee - Creation; duties generally.
§ 16-36-2. State Textbook Committee - Composition; appointment and terms of members; vacancies; qualifying affidavits of members.
§ 16-36-3. State Textbook Committee - Meetings; election of chairman and secretary; compensation and expenses of members.
§ 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.
§ 16-36-5. Local textbook selection committee - Selection of textbooks; furnishing and disposition of samples; use of textbooks not on state list.
§ 16-36-6. Local textbook selection committee - Adoption to be for period of six years; limitation on textbook replacement; report of local superintendent.
§ 16-36-7. When textbooks considered or reconsidered for adoption; existing adoptions; when new adoptions to be used.
§ 16-36-8. Recommendations of State Textbook Committee.
§ 16-36-9. Adoption of textbooks to be made at public meeting; notice; minimum number of adoptions for each course.
§ 16-36-10. Adoption to be for period of six years; contract to exclude communist authors; expiration of contracts to be stabilized.
§ 16-36-11. Annual advertisement for sealed bids by State Board of Education; specimen copies to accompany bids; furnishing and disposition of sample books.
§ 16-36-12. Deposit required with bid; opening of bids.
§ 16-36-13. Maximum price for books; contract provisions as to price; forfeiture of contract and damages; action for losses.
§ 16-36-14. Authority of state board to contract for furnishing, storing or delivering textbooks.
§ 16-36-15. Issuance of state-wide purchase contracts; shipment of books by publisher.
§ 16-36-16. Contract provisions as to price of textbooks purchased with local funds, replacement of defective or substandard books and delivery.
§ 16-36-17. Books to be shipped upon purchase orders of local boards of education; preparation and mailing of bills.
§ 16-36-18. Approval of invoices by local superintendent of education; payment.
§ 16-36-19. Special textbooks.
§ 16-36-20. Local revolving funds; local appropriations.
§ 16-36-21. Failure of contractor to furnish books; dropping of textbook.
§ 16-36-22. Substitutions for state-adopted books in certain cities and counties.
§ 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.
§ 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.
§ 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.
§ 16-36-29.1. Adequate textbooks, support, facilities and supplies.
§ 16-36-30. Storage, distribution and exchange of textbooks; repair and fumigation of used textbooks.
§ 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.
§ 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.
§ 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.
§ 16-36-35. Sale of textbooks to pupils; liability for loss, etc., of books.
§ 16-36-36. Interest in contracts, etc., prohibited; oath of members of boards of education.
§ 16-36-37. Use of other than contract books in public schools.
§ 16-36-38. Charging more than contract price for school books.
§ 16-36-39. Article not to be construed as appropriation of funds; administration of article subject to appropriations.
Article 2. Access of College Bookstore Retailers to Course Materials Information Provided to Institution-Affiliated Bookstores.
§ 16-36-50. Schools to develop course materials access plan for non-affiliated bookstores; requirements of plan.
§ 16-36-51. School faculty and departments to provide listing of requisite course materials.
Article 3. Textbooks for Public Schools; State and Local Textbook Committees.
§ 16-36-60. State Textbook Committee.
§ 16-36-61. Adoptions.
§ 16-36-62. Local textbook committee.
§ 16-36-63. Bids for statewide textbook contracts.
§ 16-36-64. Statewide textbook contracts.
§ 16-36-65. Use of statewide textbook contracts.
§ 16-36-66. Required affidavits for the State Board of Education and local boards of education.
§ 16-36-67. Special textbooks.
§ 16-36-68. Purchasing textbooks and accountability for textbooks.
§ 16-36-69. Use of textbooks.
§ 16-36-70. Adequate textbooks.