Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 20. EDUCATION · Chapter 2. ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION · Article 1. STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION

20-2-10. Gifts or compensation to members, appointees, or their families from publishers prohibited; reporting offers; penalty.

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(a)
No member or appointee of the State Board of Education or any other person having authority to select or aid in the selection of textbooks for the schools shall for himself or any member of his family receive any gift, compensation, or remuneration from any schoolbook publishing house, corporation, individual, or agent or representative of either; nor shall any such person, publishing house, or corporation offer, directly or indirectly, to any member of the state board or his family or appointees any gift, compensation, or remuneration. Should any such publishing house, corporation, or person offer to any such officers, their families, or appointees any compensation, remuneration, or gift, they shall report such offer to the grand juries of their respective counties. The judges of the superior courts in charging the grand jury from term to term shall give instructions concerning this Code section and article.#
(b)
Any person violating subsection (a) of this Code section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.#

The notes below are printed with the section but are not enacted law (O.C.G.A. § 1-1-1(c)). They are shown apart from the text.

History

Ga. L. 1911, p. 94, § 23; Ga. L. 1919, p. 288, § 15; Code 1933, §§ 32-406, 32-9901, 32-9902; Ga. L. 1937, p. 864, §§ 8, 9.

Cross references

Instructional materials and content, T. 20, C. 2, A. 19.

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