Section 16-38-3

Restoration of crippled children.

For the purpose of enabling the State Board of Education of Alabama to comply with the provisions of the national Social Security Act and to continue to extend and improve as far as practicable the services now maintained by the State Board of Education for locating crippled children and for providing medical, surgical, corrective and other services, care and treatment and facilities for diagnosis, hospitalization and after-care for children who are crippled or who are suffering from conditions which lead to crippling, any and all funds appropriated for physical restoration of crippled children for the above purposes may be used for the purposes set forth in this section.

Funds made available through that section or those sections of the federal Social Security Act which relates to crippled children, together with any and all available state and federal appropriations, shall be administered by the State Board of Education, through the Division of Rehabilitation and Crippled Children Service, and shall be used in the further development of the state's program of physical restoration of crippled children. The State Board of Education is hereby authorized to accept donations, gifts and bequests and to expend same on approval of the State Superintendent of Education or executive officer of the board for purposes approved under regulations of the State Board of Education.

All funds made available for carrying out the provisions of this section shall be paid by the Treasurer on warrants drawn therefor by the Comptroller, on requisition of the State Superintendent of Education.

(Acts 1935, No. 397, p. 870, §§ 1-3; Code 1940, T. 52, §392.)