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16-36-63
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 in such manner and for such length of time and at such places
as considered advisable, that at a certain time and place determined by the State Board of
Education sealed bids or proposals shall be received from publishers for furnishing school
textbooks. Publishers and individuals may request an invitation to bid by writing the State
Superintendent of Education. The State Board of Education may include additional regulations
in the bid form that the State Board of Education deems best for the administration of this
article. Any regulations included in the bid forms and accepted by the publisher shall be
construed as a part of this article. The bids or proposals for each book shall be based upon
a contract period determined by the State Superintendent of...
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16-36-60
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 of the state and make recommendations for approval or rejection, or both,
to the State Board of Education as hereinafter provided. In making recommendations to the
State Board of Education, the State Textbook Committee shall also consider any recommendations
made by the State Courses of Study Committee or by the State Superintendent of Education.
(b) The State Textbook Committee shall be composed of 23 members. Four of the members shall
be secondary school classroom teachers and four elementary school classroom teachers. One
of these eight members shall be appointed from each of the seven United States Congressional
Districts, as such districts are constituted on July 1, 1998, and one shall be appointed statewide.
Four members shall be appointed from the state at large, and these four...
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16-36-64
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 entered into by the State Board of Education pursuant to this article shall
be for textbooks considered by the State Textbook Committee and adopted by the State Board
of Education as provided for in this article. (b) In addition to all other laws which forbid
the use of textbooks in the public schools of the state by authors who are members of the
Communist Party or members of communist front organizations, all contracts with publishers
for textbooks made pursuant to this article shall stipulate that the author or authors of
such book or books is not a member of the Communist Party or known advocate of communism or
Marxist socialism and is not a member of a communist front organization. (c) The maximum price
at which the State Board of Education shall contract for local boards of education to pay...
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16-1-8.1
Section 16-1-8.1 Classroom instructional support. (a) For purposes of this section,
classroom instructional support means all elements of classroom instructional support as provided
in the Foundation Program, with the exception of textbook funds, as specified in Sections
16-6B-10 and 16-13-231, including, but not limited to, library enhancement, student materials,
professional development, technology, common purchases, and other classroom instructional
support approved by the State Board of Education. All funds allocated in the Foundation Program
for library enhancement, student materials, technology, professional development, and common
purchases shall be spent only for the purpose for which they were allocated. Library media
specialists shall be consulted in budgeting all library enhancement funds. (b) The procedures
for ordering, and the regulations applying to, classroom instructional support shall be as
follows: (1) BUDGET COMMITTEE. Each school shall have a budget committee. The...
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16-36-61
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 adopt for use in their systems. Local boards of education shall not adopt textbooks nor
expend public funds for textbooks that have been rejected by the State Board of Education,
except for the length of an existing local contract approved by the state superintendent.
Members of any local board found doing so shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and fined not exceeding
five hundred dollars ($500) and also may be imprisoned or sentenced to hard labor for a term
not exceeding six months. (b) The State Board of Education shall divide the subjects of study
in the public schools so that all textbooks on a given subject for grades kindergarten through
12 shall be considered for adoption in one year. New adoptions made during any year shall
not be used in the public schools until the next ensuing scholastic...
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16-36-66
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 not do
any of the following: (1) Possess an interest, directly or indirectly, in any contract that
might be made pursuant to this article for the purchase of textbooks by the state or local
boards of education. (2) Possess any interest as an author, an associate author, a publisher,
a representative or agent of an author or of a publisher of any textbook. (3) Possess any
pecuniary interest, directly or indirectly, in the business or profits of any person, firm
or corporation engaged in manufacturing, publishing, or selling of textbooks. (4) Accept any
emolument, promise of future reward or consideration of value of any kind from any publisher
of textbooks or his or her agent. (b) Each member of the State Board of Education...
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16-36-62
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 parents, of the committee or committees shall be determined by each local
board of education. A copy of local school board policies in regard to local textbook committees
shall be kept on file by each local superintendent. Names of each person serving on a local
textbook committee shall also be kept on file by each local superintendent. (b) In order to
qualify as a member of the committee, each member of the local textbook committee and its
secretary shall prepare an affidavit to be filed with the local board of education within
10 days after notice of the member's appointment stating each of the following: (1) The member
agrees to discharge faithfully all the duties imposed upon him or her as a member or as secretary
of the textbook committee. (2) The member has no interest, directly...
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21-1-26
Section 21-1-26 Approval of book shipments; payment. The President of the Alabama Institute
for Deaf and Blind, upon receipt of any shipment of books as provided herein, shall determine
if the shipment is in accordance with the invoices or bills. If in accordance he shall approve
and receipt the invoice, one copy of which he shall send to the State Superintendent of Education
and one copy to the publisher. Upon approval of the State Superintendent of Education, payment
shall be made for such purchase and charged against the portion of the state textbook fund
which has been credited to the Alabama Institute for Deaf and Blind as provided by law. (Acts
1983, 4th Ex. Sess., No. 83-920, ยง3.)...
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16-13-96
Section 16-13-96 Sale - Generally. All warrants issued hereunder shall be sold to the
highest bidder at public sale unless sold at a better price within 30 days after failure to
receive any acceptable bid at a duly advertised public sale in accordance with this section.
A public sale shall be either on sealed bids or at auction. Bidders may be invited to name
the rate or rates of interest which the warrants are to bear or the board of education may
name a rate or rates of interest and invite bids thereon. The notice of a public sale shall
state whether the sale is to be on sealed bids or at auction and shall also state the amount
of the warrants to be sold, the maturities thereof, whether county or district tax is to be
pledged, the amount payable at each maturity and either the rate or rates of interest which
the warrants are to bear or that the bidders are invited to name the rate or rates of interest
and shall also state the time and place of the meeting of the board of education at...
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41-16-123
Section 41-16-123 Provisions applicable to certain property held by division. This section
shall apply only to that property that has been held by the division for a period of not less
than 60 days from the date the property is first published in the list of surplus property,
as set out in subsection (b) of Section 41-16-121, and not purchased by any eligible
entity as set out in subsection (e) of Section 41-16-120 as follows: (1) All contracts
made by or on behalf of the State of Alabama or a department, board, bureau, commission, institution,
corporation, or agency thereof, of whatever nature for the sale or disposal of tangible personal
property owned by the State of Alabama, other than the following: a. Alcoholic beverages.
b. Products of the Alabama Institute for Deaf and Blind. c. Barter arrangements of the state
prison system. d. Books. e. School supplies. f. Food. g. Property used in vocational projects.
h. Livestock. i. Property owned by any state college or university,...
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