1. 1. When the money apportioned under the provisions of section 148.360, RSMo, is received by the treasurers of the various school districts it shall be placed to the credit of the free textbook fund of the district.
2. 2. No school board shall pay a higher price for books than is paid by any other school district in this state, or in any other state purchasing textbooks in the open market. No contract for books for a period of more than five years shall be made by any school district under the provisions of this law. Any owner, agent, solicitor or publisher of textbooks who shall offer for sale in this state or sell to any board of directors or board of education textbooks at a higher price than herein specified shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall upon conviction thereof be punished by a fine of not less than five hundred dollars and not more than ten thousand dollars for each offense.

(L. 1972 S.B. 638, A.L. 1982 Adopted by Initiative, Proposition C, November 2, 1982)

Effective 1-1-83