20-7-601. Free textbook provisions. (1) The trustees of each district shall provide free textbooks to the public school pupils of the district. The trustees shall purchase such textbooks at the expense of the district and loan them to such pupils free of charge, subject to the textbook damage policy of the trustees.
(2) For the purpose of this section only, textbooks shall not include those books or manuals which are rendered unusable as a result of having pages designed to be written upon or removed during the course of the study they serve. When the parents of a pupil attending a school of the district so request, such textbooks shall be sold to them at cost.
History: En. 75-7602 by Sec. 394, Ch. 5, L. 1971; R.C.M. 1947, 75-7602.
Structure Montana Code Annotated
Chapter 7. School Instruction and Special Programs
20-7-601. Free textbook provisions
20-7-602. Textbook selection and adoption
20-7-603. Textbooks obtained from licensed textbook dealer
20-7-604. Licensing textbook dealers
20-7-605. Notification and processing of complaint against licensed textbook dealer
20-7-606. Doing business without textbook dealer's license -- penalty
20-7-607. Restricting competition -- penalty
20-7-608. Offer or acceptance of emoluments or other inducements -- penalty