72-3345. Free textbooks required, when. Whenever the parents or guardian of any child attending any of the public schools are unable to purchase textbooks or provide rental fees for said child, the board of education of the district in which said child resides shall, if written application is made and said board finds the application meritorious, furnish said child with the regular adopted textbooks free of cost.

History: L. 1933, ch. 265, § 1; L. 1939, ch. 258, § 1; L. 1955, ch. 308, § 5; L. 1969, ch. 310, § 15; July 1.