The State Board of Education shall adopt rules for the issuance of textbooks to school children and for the preservation of such textbooks, and all rules it deems necessary to carry out its duties and functions, and all such rules shall apply alike to all school districts. It shall prescribe the form of all reports and applications, and superintendents of schools, and boards of education shall be required to make such reports fully and completely at the time and in the manner prescribed by the State Board of Education. The State Board of Education shall keep an exact account of the cost of books distributed to each school district, together with the proper proportion of transportation and accounting charges.
The State Textbook Committee shall also have the power to adopt such rules as it deems necessary to enable it to perform its functions and duties.
Laws 1971, c. 281, § 16-118, eff. July 2, 1971; Laws 1993, c. 229, § 16, eff. July 1, 1993.