Acceptance of gifts, grants, devises, and bequests for students who are blind; special fund; report.

Sec. 8b.

The superintendent of public instruction may take by gift, grant from federal or other sources, devise, bequest, or in any other lawful manner, property, money, pledges, or promises to pay money for the benefit of students who are blind. Notwithstanding the provisions of section 8, the state treasurer shall transmit to the superintendent of public instruction all of this money that is held in the state treasury. The superintendent of public instruction shall place this money and grants in a special fund to be spent as authorized by the superintendent of public instruction for the purposes for which they were donated subject to the conditions of the gift, grant, devise, or bequest without further approval of the legislature unless additional costs to the state will be involved in the spending of these funds. The superintendent of public instruction shall submit a report of all funds received and expended under this section to the senate and house committees on appropriations.

History: Add. 1971, Act 199, Imd. Eff. Dec. 27, 1971; Am. 2016, Act 536, Eff. Apr. 9, 2017