The local superintendents of education are authorized to purchase and arrange for distribution among schools previously adopted textbooks, equipment and materials which are prepared in various resource and media centers for the use of vision and hearing impaired children and those having other special learning disabilities enrolled in the public schools in Alabama or whose tuition and expenses at other schools are being paid by a local board of education under the provisions of this article.
Ala. Code § 16-39-10 (1975)