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South Carolina Statutes, Title 59

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Title 59, Education

106 chapters · 2,049 sections in this title.

All chapters in Title 592,049 Ch 53, Title 59, Chapter 53153 Ch 63, Title 59, Chapter 6396 Ch 25, Title 59, Chapter 2565 Ch 67, Title 59, Chapter 6764 Ch 119, Title 59, Chapter 11959 Ch 1, Title 59, Chapter 158 Ch 21, Title 59, Chapter 2152 Ch 19, Title 59, Chapter 1949 Ch 29, Title 59, Chapter 2949 Ch 150, Title 59, Chapter 15049 Ch 101, Title 59, Chapter 10144 Ch 125, Title 59, Chapter 12543 Ch 31, Title 59, Chapter 3142 Ch 71, Title 59, Chapter 7141

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S.C. Code Ann. § 59-31-10 Library committee
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There shall be a library committee composed of the State Superintendent of Education, the director of the division of elementary education, the high school supervisor and four other members to be appointed by the State Superintendent of Education, two representing the elementary …
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-31-20 Field workers
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The State Board of Education may appoint five field workers who shall be charged with the duties assigned by the Board and shall perform any and all duties required by the provisions of this chapter. As compensation for their services such field workers shall each receive a salar…
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-31-210 Board required to provide textbooks on rental basis
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The State Board of Education shall provide all the textbooks for use in the public schools of the State on a rental system whereby the pupils in the public schools will pay an annual rental in an amount to be fixed by the State Board of Education, in its discretion, graduated as …
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-31-220 Furnishing library books
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The State Board of Education shall furnish library books, from an approved list, to the public school districts or counties of this State upon the same terms and conditions that textbooks are now furnished under the terms of this article. But when any school district or county sh…

S.C. Code Ann. § 59-31-230 Furnishing audio-visual equipment

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The State Department of Education shall provide audio-visual equipment, including films and motion-picture projectors, for the use in the free public schools of the State on either the State rental plan or the library purchase plan.

S.C. Code Ann. § 59-31-240 Pupils' option to purchase or rent books

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No pupil in the public schools of the State shall be required to pay any larger amount for the use of the books than authorized by Section 59-31-210 nor to buy outright or otherwise acquire any textbook. But any pupil may purchase, if he so desires, the books to be used by him, i…

S.C. Code Ann. § 59-31-250 State institutions of higher learning authorized to establish textbook rental systems

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Any State institution of higher learning may, in the discretion of its board of trustees or other governing body, set up a textbook rental system in the same manner as is provided in Section 59-31-210 for school districts and may choose or purchase its own textbooks. All funds re…

S.C. Code Ann. § 59-31-260 School districts and counties authorized to establish rental or free textbook systems

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Nothing contained in this article shall abrogate the power to set up rental or free textbook systems of any school district or county that may have such right, and all rentals received by any such district or county from rental of books belonging to such district or county shall …

S.C. Code Ann. § 59-31-270 Abandonment of county or district rental or free textbook system

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Upon the resolution of the county legislative delegation any county or school district may abandon its rental or free system of textbooks and accept the provisions of this article. Upon any such county or school district abandoning its rental or free system and accepting the prov…

S.C. Code Ann. § 59-31-280 Subsequent election to come under system

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Notwithstanding that any school district or county may have exercised the privilege accorded under Section 59-31-410 not to come under the provisions of this article, any such school district or county may retract any such election by filing with the State Board of Education a wr…

S.C. Code Ann. § 59-31-290 Rules and regulations for depositories; distribution and damage to books

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The State Board of Education shall adopt, establish and promulgate such rules and regulations as may be necessary to carry out the purposes of this article, which, when not in conflict with the terms and purposes of this article, shall have full legal force and effect. Such rules…

S.C. Code Ann. § 59-31-30 Use of uniform series of textbooks in public schools; exceptions

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The State Board of Education shall designate a uniform series of textbooks which shall be used in every free public school of this State receiving any State aid for any purpose whatsoever. No school failing or refusing to use such uniform series of textbooks, unless expressly per…

S.C. Code Ann. § 59-31-300 Retention of books within districts

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As far as may be practicable the State Board of Education shall provide for the retention of all necessary schoolbooks for use by the school districts within such districts.

S.C. Code Ann. § 59-31-310 Counties required to provide depositories for books

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The various counties, through their properly constituted authorities, shall furnish a sufficient and proper place for depositing or storing books used in such counties.

S.C. Code Ann. § 59-31-320 Contracts with publishers for general depositories

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The State Board of Education may require all publishers of textbooks with whom textbook contracts have been made to maintain a joint agency or depository, in some city in the State to be located at some suitable and convenient distributing point, at which general depository each …

S.C. Code Ann. § 59-31-330 Fumigation or disinfection of books

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The State Board of Education, in conjunction with the Department of Health and Environmental Control, shall adopt rules and regulations governing the fumigation or disposal of textbooks from quarantined homes and for the regular disinfection of all textbooks used in the public sc…

S.C. Code Ann. § 59-31-340 School districts responsible for proper protection, use and care of books

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The director shall hold each school district in the State responsible for the proper protection, use and care of all schoolbooks allotted to each such district under the terms of this article. Each school district shall make reports to the director when required by the director a…

S.C. Code Ann. § 59-31-350 Rentals payable annually in advance

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The rentals shall be paid by or for each pupil annually in advance upon the opening of school, before any pupil is allowed the use of the books.

S.C. Code Ann. § 59-31-360 Waiver of textbook rental charges; use of school district books

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The State Board of Education shall waive textbook rental charges for grades kindergarten through twelve of the public schools, to the end that basal textbooks adopted and approved by the board for use in the public schools must be supplied to the school children of the State with…

S.C. Code Ann. § 59-31-370 Collection and payment of rentals

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The rentals provided hereunder shall be collected by the various school districts in the State, and each school district shall pay the amount thereof due for the use of books by the pupils in such district within thirty days from the date of the opening of the schools or the admi…

S.C. Code Ann. § 59-31-380 Tax levy for payment of losses; damages or unpaid rentals

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Upon proper certification by the State Board of Education and county superintendent of education, the county auditors and county treasurers of the respective counties in which such school districts or units are located shall levy sufficient millage in or upon any such school dist…

S.C. Code Ann. § 59-31-390 Administrative expenses shall be paid out of rentals

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All necessary expenses incurred in administering the terms of this article shall be paid from the rentals collected hereunder.

S.C. Code Ann. § 59-31-40 Adoption of new books; contract terms

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The meetings of the State Board of Education in any year at which an adoption is made must be public. New textbooks adopted by the State Board of Education in any year must not be used in the free public schools of this State until the next school session begins. Each contract be…

S.C. Code Ann. § 59-31-400 School authorities shall cooperate in administration of system

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The county superintendents and boards of education in the various counties of the State shall cooperate with the State Board of Education in the administration of the terms of this article and the rules and regulations established by the State Board of Education in such manner as…

S.C. Code Ann. § 59-31-410 Exclusions from applicability of article

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The provisions of this article shall not apply (a) to any school district the board of trustees of which filed before August 1, 1936 with the former State Schoolbook Commission a written statement, approved by the Senator and at least one half of the representatives from such cou…

S.C. Code Ann. § 59-31-45 Selection of textbooks; requests; procedures

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(A) In addition to any other method of textbook selection, the State Board of Education shall add to the approved list of textbooks for use in the public schools of this State any textbook or series of textbooks which have been reviewed and not adopted by the state board if the t…

S.C. Code Ann. § 59-31-50 Use of disapproved books unlawful

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In all schools and colleges within this State which are supported in whole or in part from the free school funds it shall be unlawful to use any textbook which has been condemned or disapproved by the State Board of Education.

S.C. Code Ann. § 59-31-510 Contracts with publishers for rental or purchase of books

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The State Board of Education may negotiate and execute contracts with the publishers of textbooks and instructional materials and vendors of instructional technology that allow the State to rent from the publishers or buy outright the books to be used in the public schools, with …

S.C. Code Ann. § 59-31-520 Continuance of contracts with publishers

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At the expiration of any contract between the State and the publisher of any textbook, the State Board of Education, upon satisfactory agreement being had with such publisher, may continue the contract for any such textbook, or the latest editions thereof, for an indefinite perio…

S.C. Code Ann. § 59-31-530 Duration of original contracts

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Original contracts made with publishers of all textbooks and providers of instructional materials shall run for not less than one year nor more than six years.

S.C. Code Ann. § 59-31-540 Most favored purchaser clause in contract

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All contracts shall provide that if any person who furnishes adopted textbooks to the State shall sell the same textbooks or cause them to be sold to any other person, state or state board for a price less than that which this State has contracted to pay for such textbooks, then …

S.C. Code Ann. § 59-31-550 Bids; details as to contracts

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The State Board of Education shall make all necessary rules and regulations pertaining to: (1) The advertisement of bids; (2) The submission of prices; (3) The sampling of, and hearings on, textbooks offered for adoption; (4) The nature and type of contract to be entered into bet…

S.C. Code Ann. § 59-31-560 Approval of contracts and publishers' bonds by Attorney General

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The Attorney General of the State shall approve all contracts to be entered into between the State and publishers and shall approve the bond to be filed by each contract publisher. Such bond shall be placed in the custody of the State Treasurer.

S.C. Code Ann. § 59-31-570 Change in terms of contracts

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The State Board of Education may, in its discretion, postpone, alter, amend or modify the terms of State adoption of textbook contracts.

S.C. Code Ann. § 59-31-580 Attorney General shall enforce article

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The Attorney General shall institute and prosecute suits against all violators of the provisions of this article and all contracts entered into in violation of the terms of this article shall be null and void.

S.C. Code Ann. § 59-31-590 School personnel not permitted to act as agents for publishers

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It shall be unlawful for any teacher of a school supported in whole or in part from the public school funds of this State or any trustee of any such school or any other school officer to become an active or silent agent of any schoolbook publisher or be in anywise pecuniarily int…

S.C. Code Ann. § 59-31-60 Issuing notes for books or borrowing to pay for same

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The State Board of Education may issue its negotiable notes with interest not exceeding three and one-half per cent per annum and may pledge all books purchased and all rentals collected under Article 3 of this chapter, after the payment of all administrative expenses, for the di…

S.C. Code Ann. § 59-31-600 Standards for textbook adoptions

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When the State Board of Education determines that a textbook or instructional material adoption is needed in a specific field, the board shall direct evaluating and rating committees to assess the textbook or instructional material for the development of higher-order thinking ski…

S.C. Code Ann. § 59-31-610 Public review and hearings

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The State Superintendent of Education shall make arrangements for a thirty-day public review of materials recommended by the instructional materials review panels prior to taking those recommendations to the State Board of Education. The public review sites must be geographically…

S.C. Code Ann. § 59-31-65 Acquisition of instructional technology

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State funds for the acquisition of textbooks in the public schools of this State may also be used to acquire instructional technology and other similar materials which have been approved by the State Board of Education. The procedures applicable to the use of these funds to acqui…

S.C. Code Ann. § 59-31-70 Purchase of textbooks; reimbursement from state school textbook funds

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A school district may purchase school textbooks approved by the Board of Education for instructional use directly from a publisher under contract with the state board when needed for instruction by the school district if the textbooks are not available from the State Department o…

S.C. Code Ann. § 59-31-75 Textbooks required for course to begin

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A public school may not begin a course if state-approved textbooks or other course material is not available on the first day of class or if the delivery date is after the first two weeks of classes unless the board of trustees determines that the class should be offered.