Nevada Code § 393.170

Library books, textbooks and other school supplies: Purchase; payment for damage; ownership; penalty
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1. The board of trustees of a school
district shall purchase all new library books and supplies, all new textbooks
and supplementary schoolbooks which are necessary and have been approved by the
State Board of Education, and school supplies necessary to carry out the
mandates of the school curriculum to be used by the pupils of the school
district. The cost of the books and supplies is a legal charge against the
school district fund.
2. All books purchased by the board of
trustees must be held as property of the school district, and must be loaned to
the pupils of the school in the school district while pursuing a course of
study therein.
3. The parents and guardians of pupils are
responsible for all books and any and all other material or equipment loaned to
the children in their charge, and shall pay to the clerk of the board of
trustees, or to any other person authorized by the board to receive the same,
the full purchase price of all such books, material or equipment destroyed,
lost or so damaged as to make them unfit for use by other pupils succeeding to
their classes. The board of trustees shall establish reasonable rules and
regulations governing the care and custody of such school property, and for the
payment of fines for damage thereto.
4. Equipment and materials for use in
manual training, industrial training and teaching domestic science may be
supplied to the pupils in the same manner, out of the same fund, and on the
same terms and conditions as books. No private ownership may be acquired in
such equipment or material, unless sold in the manner prescribed by law when
such equipment or material are no longer used or required for the schools of
the school district.
5. Authorized supplementary books and desk
books for the use of teachers must be purchased under NRS 393.160 to 393.210 , inclusive, and remain the property
of the school district for which they were purchased, unless sold in accordance
with the provisions of this chapter.
6. The clerk of the board of trustees
shall turn over to the county treasurer, within 30 days after receiving it, all
money, collected under the provisions of this section, and the money must be
credited to the school district fund.
7. Any person violating any of the
provisions of this section is guilty of a misdemeanor.

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