The commissioner is authorized and directed to provide for transportation of children of employees of the Mississippi State Penitentiary both in Sunflower County and Quitman County to a public elementary or secondary school located in those counties and to pay for such transportation out of the support and maintenance fund of the department of correction. The commissioner shall further pay to any public elementary or secondary school located in said counties which said children are sent, an amount not to exceed Sixty Dollars ($60.00) per student per month as tuition, which also shall be paid out of the support and maintenance fund of the department of correction. Any student who receives benefits under this section shall not be eligible for any other educational financial state grant or loan.Codes, 1942, § 7967; Laws, 1964, ch. 378, § 47; Ex Sess, 1969, ch. 36, § 1; Laws, 1975, ch. 404; Laws, 1976, ch. 440, § 63; reenacted, Laws, 1981, ch. 465, § 47; reenacted, Laws, 1984, ch. 471, § 42; reenacted, Laws, 1986, ch. 413, § 42, eff. 3/28/1986.
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