Section 22-15-2 - Definitions.

22-15-2. Definitions.

As used in the Instructional Material Law: 

A.     "division" or "bureau" means the instructional material bureau of the department; 

B.     "director" or "chief" means the chief of the bureau;

C.     "instructional material" means school textbooks and other educational media that are used as the basis for instruction, including combinations of textbooks, learning kits, supplementary material and electronic media; 

D.     "multiple list" means a written list of those instructional materials approved by the department; 

E.     "membership" means the total enrollment of qualified students on the fortieth day of the school year entitled to the free use of instructional material pursuant to the Instructional Material Law; 

F.     "additional pupil" means a pupil in a school district's, state institution's or private school's current year's certified forty-day membership above the number certified in the school district's, state institution's or private school's prior year's forty-day membership; 

G.     "school district" includes state-chartered charter schools; and

H.     "other classroom materials" means materials other than textbooks that are used to support direct instruction to students.