§ 712. Loan of school library materials. 1. In the several cities and
school districts of the state, boards of education, trustees or such
body or officers as perform the function of such boards shall have the
power and duty to loan upon request of an individual or a group of
individual pupils, to all pupils defined in subdivision three of section
seven hundred eleven of this article, school library materials. School
library materials loaned to such pupils attending private schools shall
be school library materials which are designated for use in any public
elementary or secondary schools of the state or are approved by any
board of education, trustees or other school authorities. Such school
library materials are to be loaned free to such children subject to such
rules and regulations as are or may be prescribed by the board of
regents and such boards of education, trustees or other school
authorities.

2. No school district shall be required to loan school library
materials in excess of the school library materials owned or acquired by
such district pursuant to section seven hundred eleven of this article.
Such school library materials shall be loaned on an equitable basis to
children defined in subdivision three of section seven hundred eleven of
this article attending in the current year. The payment of tuition under
article eighty-nine of this chapter is deemed to be an equitable loan to
children for whom such tuition is paid.