section, specifying such matter or statements in detail. If the commission determine that the textbook against which complaint is made contains any such matter or statements, it shall issue a certificate disapproving the use of such textbook in the public schools of this State, together with a statement of the reasons for its disapproval, specifying the matter found unlawful. Such certificate of disapproval of a textbook, with a detailed statement of the reasons for its disapproval, shall be duly forwarded to the boards of education or other boards or authorities having jurisdiction of the public schools of the cities, towns or school districts of this State, and after the receipt of such certificate the use of a textbook so disapproved shall be discontinued in such city, town or school district.

Any contract hereafter made by any such board of education or other school authorities for the purchase of a textbook in any of such subjects, which has been so disapproved, shall be void. Any school officer or teacher who permits a textbook in any of such subjects, which has been so disapproved, to be used in the public schools of the State, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. [Added by L. 1918, ch. 246, in effect April 17, 1918.]

ARTICLE 26

Physiology and Hygiene

Section 690 Instruction regarding nature of alcoholic drinks 691 Enforcement of last section

§ 690 drinks.

Instruction regarding nature of alcoholic 1 The nature of alcoholic drinks and other narcotics and their effects on the human system shall be taught in connection with the various divisions of physiology and hygiene, as thoroughly as are other branches in all schools under state control, or supported wholly or in part by public money of the State, and also in all schools connected with reformatory institutions.

2 All pupils in the above-mentioned schools below the second year of the high school and above the third year of school work computing from the beginning of the lowest primary, not kindergarten, year, or in corresponding classes of ungraded schools, shall be taught and shall study this subject every year with suitable textbooks in the hands of all pupils, for not less than three lessons a week for ten or more weeks, or the equivalent of the

same in each year, and must pass satisfactory tests in this as in cther studies before promotion to the next succeeding year's work; except that, where there are nine or more school years below the high school, the study may be omitted in all years above the eighth year and below the high school, by such pupils as have passed the required tests of the eighth year.

3 In all schools above-mentioned, all pupils in the lowest three primary, not kindergarten, school years or in corresponding classes in ungraded schools shall each year be instructed in this subject orally for not less than two lessons a week for ten weeks, or the equivalent of the same in each year, by teachers using textbooks adapted for such oral instruction as a guide and standard, and such pupils must pass such tests in this as may be required in other studies before promotion to the next succeeding year's work. Nothing in this article shall be construed as prohibiting or requir ing the teaching of this subject in kindergarten schools.

4 The local school authorities shall provide needed facilities and definite time and place for this branch in the regular courses of study.

5 The textbooks in the pupils' hands shall be graded to the capacities of fourth year, intermediate, grammar and high school pupils, or to corresponding classes in ungraded schools. For students below high school grade, such textbooks shall give at least one-fifth their space, and for students of high school grade, shall give not less than twenty pages to the nature and effects of alcoholic drinks and other narcotics. This subject must be treated in the textbooks in connection with the various divisions of physiology and hygiene, and pages on this subject in a separate chapter at the end of the books shall not be counted in determining the minimum. No textbook on physiology not conforming to this article shall be used in the public schools.

6 All Regents' examinations in physiology and hygiene shall include a due proportion of questions on the nature of alcoholic drinks and other narcotics, and their effects on the human system.

§ 691 Enforcement of last section. 1 In all normal schools, teachers' training classes and teachers institutes, adequate time and attention shall be given to instruction in the best methods of teaching this branch, and no teacher shall be licensed who has not passed a satisfactory examination in the subject and the best methods of teaching it. On satisfactory evidence that any teacher has wilfully refused to teach this subject, as provided in this article, the Commissioner of Education shall revoke the license of such teacher.

2 No public money of the State shall be apportioned by the Commissioner of Education or paid for the benefit of any city until the superintendent of schools therein shall have filed with the treasurer or chamberlain of such city an affidavit, and with the Commissioner of Education a duplicate of such affidavit, that he has made thorough investigation as to the facts, and that to the best of his knowledge, information and belief, all the provisions of this article have been complied with in all the schools under his supervision in such city during the last preceding legal school year.

3 Nor shall any public money of the State be apportioned by the Commissioner of Education or by school commissioners, or paid for the benefit of any school district, until the president of the board of trustees, or in the case of common school districts the trustee or some one member of the board of trustees, shall have filed with the school commissioner having jurisdiction an affidavit that he has made thorough investigation as to the facts and that to the best of his knowledge, information and belief, all the provisions of this article have been complied with in such district, which affidavit shall be included in the trustees' annual report.

4 It shall be the duty of every school commissioner to file with the Commissioner of Education an affidavit in connection with his annual report, showing all districts in his jurisdiction that have and those that have not complied with all the provisions of this article, according to the best of his knowledge, information and belief, based upon a thorough investigation by him as to the facts.

5 Nor shall any public money of the State be apportioned or paid for the benefit of any teachers' training class, teachers institute or other school mentioned herein until the officer having jurisdiction or supervision thereof shall have filed with the Commissioner of Education an affidavit that he has made thorough investigation as to the facts and that to the best of his knowledge, information and belief, all the provisions of this article relative thereto have been complied with.

6 The principal of each normal school in the State shall at the close of each school year file with the Commissioner of Education an affidavit that all the provisions of this article applicable thereto have been complied with during the school year just terminated and until such affidavit shall be filed no warrant shall be issued by the Commissioner of Education for the payment by the treasurer of any part of the money appropriated for such school.

7 It shall be the duty of the Commissioner of Education to provide blank forms of affidavit required herein for use by the local school officers, and he shall include in his annual report a statement showing every school, city or district which has failed to comply with all the provisions of this article during the preceding school year.

8 On complaint by appeal to the Commissioner of Education by any patron of the schools mentioned in the last preceding section or by any citizen that any provision of this article has not been complied with in any city or district, the Commissioner of Education shall make immediate investigation, and on satisfactory evidence of the truth of such complaint, shall thereupon and thereafter withhold all public money of the State to which such city or district would otherwise be entitled, until all the provisions of this article shall be complied with in said city or district, and shall exercise his power of reclamation and deduction under section 491 of this chapter.

ARTICLE 26-A

[Article added by L. 1916, ch. 567, in effect May 15, 1916]

Discipline and Physical Training Section 695 Instruction in physical training and kindred subjects 696 Rules of Regents

697 State aid for teachers employed

698 Use of armories for physical training

§ 695 Instruction in physical training and kindred subjects. All male and female pupils above the age of eight years in all elementary and secondary schools shall receive as part of the prescribed courses of instruction therein such physical training under the direction of the Commissioner of Education as the Regents may determine, during periods which shall average at least twenty minutes in each school day. Pupils above such age attending the public schools shall be required to attend upon such prescribed courses of instruction.

The board of education or trustees of every school district in a city and every union free school district regularly employing twenty or more teachers shall employ a teacher or teachers qualified and duly licensed under the regulations of the Regents to give such instruction; in every other district of the State, they shall require such instruction to be given by the teacher or teachers

regularly employed to give instruction in other subjects or by a teacher or teachers qualified and duly licensed under the regulations of the Regents. The boards of education or trustees of two or more contiguous districts in the same supervisory district, however, may join in the employment of a teacher qualified and duly licensed under the regulations of the Regents to give such instruction; and the salary of such teacher and the expenses incurred on account of such instruction shall be apportioned by the district superintendent among such districts according to the assessed valuation thereof, and as so apportioned shall be a charge upon each of such districts. Similar courses of instruction shall be prescribed and maintained in private schools in the State, and all pupils in such schools over eight years of age shall attend upon such courses; and if such courses are not so established and maintained in any private school, attendance upon instruction in such school shall not be deemed substantially equivalent to instruction given to children of like ages in the public school or schools of the city or district in which the child resides. [Amended by L. 1918, ch. 442 and L. 1921, chs. 211 and 389, in effect July 1, 1921.]

§ 696 Rules of Regents. It shall be the duty of the Regents to adopt rules determining the subjects to be included in courses of physical training provided for in this article, the period of instruction in each of such courses, the qualifications of teachers, and the attendance upon such courses of instruction. [Added by L. 1916, ch. 567 and amended by L. 1921, chs. 211 and 389, in effect July 1, 1921.]

§ 697 State aid for teachers employed. The Commissioner of Education, in the annual apportionment of state school moneys, shall apportion therefrom to each city and school district on account of courses of instruction as provided in this article, established and maintained in the schools of such city or district during the school year or any part thereof, a sum equal to one-half of the salary paid to each teacher qualified and duly licensed under the regulations of the Regents to give instruction in such courses, but the entire amount apportioned on account of a single teacher during a school year shall not exceed six hundred dollars. Such apportionments shall be made out of moneys to be appropriated therefor, subject to the provisions of law relative to apportionments of public money to the public schools of the State. Such apportionments shall not be made unless such courses