If any person related within the third degree by blood or marriage, as computed by civil law, to any member of the board, or if any person that is associated in any business or partnership with any member of said board, shall be employed in good faith by any school book company, firm, corporation or agent in connection with the adoption of textbooks within this state, the said member of the board so related by blood or marriage, or so associated in business or partnership with such person, shall not vote in the rating and adoption of any school book or books offered by such school book company, firm, corporation or agent for adoption.
Structure Mississippi Code
§ 37-43-17. Persons disqualified from participation in rating and adoption of textbooks
§ 37-43-19. General powers and duties of board
§ 37-43-23. Procedure for purchase of textbooks from publishers; distribution of books
§ 37-43-25. Retention of specimen copies of textbooks, contracts and bonds, and copies of bids
§ 37-43-27. No books to be purchased from trusts
§ 37-43-29. Designation of Secretary of State as contractor's agent
§ 37-43-33. Purchase of books by parents, school boards, etc.
§ 37-43-37. Numbering of books; record of books issued to pupils
§ 37-43-39. Persons prohibited from acting as agents or attorneys for textbook publishers
§ 37-43-41. State Textbook Fund; Local School District Textbook Carryover Fund
§ 37-43-43. Deposit of funds to credit of State Textbook Fund
§ 37-43-45. Suits for recovery of losses
§ 37-43-47. Payment of bills for textbooks
§ 37-43-49. Storage of school books by counties
§ 37-43-51. Reports by schools receiving textbooks
§ 37-43-53. Advertising on covers of textbooks
§ 37-43-55. Purchase and distribution of Mississippi Blue Book