Current with legislation from 2024 Fiscal and Special Sessions.
Section 6-51-208 - Student fees(a) The State Board of Education may establish a reasonable system of charges as fees to be paid by students in the technical institutes or vocational-technical schools and adult education courses, with the system of charges to be established according to the type of course of instruction and the length thereof.(b) The rate or fees to be paid by students shall be set by the state board, and all funds accruing in the fiscal year over and above the amount appropriated by the General Assembly from the fund shall be deposited into the State Treasury at the end of the fiscal year.(c) Employees may not be paid from cash funds unless appropriated for this specific purpose by the General Assembly.(d) No secondary student or school shall be made to pay a tuition charge as a condition of his or her enrollment in any vocational program funded by the Division of Elementary and Secondary Education while enrolled in a regular high school program.(e) When any person sixty (60) years of age or older is admitted and enrolls as a student in any state area vocational-technical school, the state board or other appropriate institutional officials shall waive all the general student fee charges for each such student on a space-available basis in existing classes.Amended by Act 2019, No. 910,§ 1859, eff. 7/1/2019.Acts 1957, No. 328, § 6; 1965, No. 450, § 1; 1977, No. 525, § 2; 1981, No. 732, § 6; A.S.A. 1947, §§ 80-1662, 80-2510.1, 80-2562; Acts 1999, No. 1323, § 34.