20 U.S.C. § 102 : US Code - Section 102: Application of appropriations

Search 20 U.S.C. § 102 : US Code - Section 102: Application of appropriations

The Secretary of Education is authorized to pay over
semiannually, to the trustees of the American Printing House for
the Blind, located in Louisville, Kentucky, and chartered in 1858
by the Legislature of Kentucky, upon requisition of their
president, countersigned by their treasurer, one-half of such
annual appropriation upon the following conditions:
(1) Purposes and methods of expenditures
First. (A) Such appropriation shall be expended by the trustees
of the American Printing House for the Blind each year in
manufacturing and furnishing books and other materials specially
adapted for instruction of the blind; and the total amount of
such books and other materials so manufactured and furnished by
such appropriation shall each year be distributed among all the
public and private nonprofit institutions in the States,
Territories, and possessions of the United States, the
Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and the District of Columbia, in
which blind pupils are educated. Each public and private
nonprofit institution for the education of the blind shall
receive, in books and other materials, upon requisition of its
superintendent, that portion of the appropriation as is shown by
the ratio between the number of blind pupils in that institution
and the total number of blind pupils in all of the public and
private nonprofit institutions in which blind pupils are
educated. Each chief State school officer shall receive, in books
and other materials, upon requisition, that portion of the
appropriation as is shown by the ratio between the number of
blind pupils in public and private nonprofit institutions (in the
State) in which blind pupils are educated, other than
institutions to which the preceding sentence is applicable, and
the total number of blind pupils in the public and private
nonprofit institutions in which blind pupils are educated in all
of the States, Territories, and possessions of the United States,
the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and the District of Columbia.
The ratio referred to in each of the two immediately preceding
sentences shall be computed upon the first Monday in January of
each year; and for purposes of such sentences the number of blind
pupils in public and private nonprofit institutions in which
blind pupils are educated shall be authenticated in such manner
and as often as the trustees of the American Printing House for
the Blind shall require. For purposes of sections 101, 102, and
104 of this title, an institution for the education of the blind
is any institution which provides education exclusively for the
blind, or exclusively for the blind and other handicapped
children (in which case special classes are provided for the
blind); the chief State school officer of a State is the
superintendent of public elementary and secondary schools in such
State or, if there is none, such other official as the Governor
certifies to have comparable responsibility in the State; and a
blind pupil is a blind individual pursuing a course of study in
an institution of less than college grade.
(B) The portion of the appropriation received by each chief
State school officer, in such books and other materials under
subparagraph (A) of this paragraph which represents the number of
blind pupils in private nonprofit institutions in such State in
which blind pupils are educated shall be distributed among such
institutions on the basis of the number of blind pupils in each
such institution as compared to the total number of such pupils
in all of the private nonprofit institutions in which blind
pupils are educated in such State.
(C) All books and other materials furnished pursuant to
sections 101, 102, and 104 of this title, and control and
administration of their use, shall vest only in a public agency.
Such books and materials made available pursuant to sections 101,
102 and 104 of this title for use of teachers and blind pupils in
any State, Territory, or possession of the United States, the
Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and the District of Columbia in any
school shall be limited to those books and materials which have
been approved by an appropriate educational authority or agency
of such State, Territory, possession, Commonwealth, or District,
or any local educational authority thereof, for use, or are used,
in a public elementary or secondary school therein.
(2) Buildings
Second. No part of the appropriation shall be expended in the
erection or leasing of buildings; but the trustees of the
American Printing House for the Blind may use each year a
reasonable sum of the annual appropriation for salaries and other
expenses of experts and other staff to assist special committees
which may be appointed in performance of their functions, and for
expenses of such special committees.
(3) Sales of books and apparatus at cost
Third. No profit shall be put on any books or tangible
apparatus for the instruction of the blind manufactured or
furnished by the trustees of said American Printing House for the
Blind, located in Louisville, Kentucky; and the price put upon
each article so manufactured or furnished shall only be its
actual cost.
(4) Income withheld when not properly used
Fourth. The Secretary of the Treasury of the United States
shall have the authority to withhold the appropriation whenever
he shall receive satisfactory proof that the trustees of said
American Printing House for the Blind, located in Louisville,
Kentucky, are not using the appropriation for the benefit of the
blind in the public and private nonprofit institutions for the
education of the blind in the United States.
(5) Bond of treasurer
Fifth. Before any money be paid to the treasurer of the
American Printing House for the Blind by the Secretary of the
Treasury of the United States, the treasurer of the American
Printing House for the Blind shall execute a bond, with two
approved sureties, to the amount of $20,000, conditioned that the
money so received shall be expended according to this law and all
amendments thereto, which shall be held by the Secretary of the
Treasury of the United States, and shall be renewed every two
years.
(6) Ex officio trustees
Sixth. The superintendent of each public institution for the
education of the blind (or his designee) and the chief State
school officer (or his designee), of each State and possession of
the United States, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and the
District of Columbia, shall each, ex officio, be a member of the
Board of Trustees of the American Printing House for the Blind
only for purposes of administering sections 101, 102 and 104 of
this title.