Current through Vol. 42, No. 8, January 2, 2025
Section 720:10-3-7 - Free Materials(a) Free materials must be listed on the Free Materials Form of the Bid and additionally labeled, "Free Material not reviewed or approved by the State Textbook Committee".(b) Free Material will not be submitted to the State Textbook Committee for consideration for adoption purposes. Samples of any items listed on the Free Materials Form shall be listed at the same time and in the same manner as the textbooks which they accompany. Materials listed as give free items must not be from another bid area. Materials listed as free items must be for the duration of the contract period.(c) All items that are not listed on the bid form as given free cannot be provided free. Doing so may jeopardize the textbook contract.(d) Comprehensive teacher materials will be furnished free to school districts based upon a minimum ratio of one (1) teacher set to 20 textbooks purchased by the district and will be submitted with bids for review.(e) Items that are integral to the educational material may be offered free as part of the bid. These include software that supplements, complements, or is a digital version of the textbook; consumables or kits that are essential to the use of the educational material, teacher manuals, test banks, study guides, and supplementary material.(f) Nonessential items that shall not be offered free include: lab equipment such as microscopes, carts, and other hardware; standard electronic equipment such as DVD players, overhead projectors, phone/music/data transmitting and listening devices, cameras, televisions, computers, media carts, calculators; educational materials that are not related to the subject areas of the items that are offered in the bid.Okla. Admin. Code § 720:10-3-7
Added at 11 Ok Reg 707, eff 11-22-93 (emergency); Added at 11 Ok Reg 3553, eff 6-27-94; Amended at 12 Ok Reg 3301, eff 6-27-95; Amended at 21 Ok Reg 1834, eff 6-11-04; Amended at 24 Ok Reg 1696, eff 7-2-07