[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 20USC102]
TITLE 20--EDUCATION
CHAPTER 6--AMERICAN PRINTING HOUSE FOR THE BLIND
Sec. 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.
(Mar. 3, 1879, ch. 186, Sec. 3, 20 Stat. 468; June 25, 1906, ch. 3536,
34 Stat. 460; Aug. 2, 1956, ch. 882, Sec. 1, 70 Stat. 938; Pub. L. 87-
294, Secs. 1-3, Sept. 22, 1961, 75 Stat. 627; Pub. L. 91-230, title
VIII, Sec. 811(a), (b), Apr. 13, 1970, 84 Stat. 194, 195; Pub. L. 96-88,
title III, Sec. 301(a)(2)(M), title V, Sec. 507, Oct. 17, 1979, 93 Stat.
678, 692.)
Codification
For purposes of codification, the provisions of section 3 of act
Mar. 3, 1879, were changed as follows: provision providing for payment
of the semi-annual interest upon the bonds was substituted for one
providing for payment of one-half the annual appropriation, the word
``income'' was substituted for ``appropriation'', and the word
``interest'' was substituted for ``money'' in par. (5), to conform to
the modification of act Mar. 3, 1879, by act June 25, 1906, as shown in
the note set out under section 101 of this title.
Amendments
1970--Par. First. Pub. L. 91-230, Sec. 811(a), designated existing
provisions as subpar. (A), made provisions applicable to private
nonprofit institutions, and added subpars. (B) and (C).
Par. Fourth. Pub. L. 91-230, Sec. 811(b), made provisions applicable
to private nonprofit institutions.
1961--Pub. L. 87-294, Sec. 1, substituted ``Secretary of Health,
Education, and Welfare'' for ``Secretary of the Treasury of the United
States'' and struck out ``permanent'' before ``annual appropriation'' in
opening clause.
Par. Second. Pub. L. 87-294, Sec. 2, authorized the trustees to 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 perfor
