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(f)    Compensation. No member of said Board of Education shall
receive compensation for his services, but shall receive an allowance
of $2,400 annually or such larger sum for travel and other expenses
as may be provided by the County Council of Montgomery County.

(g)    Powers and duties. The Board of Education of Montgomery
County shall perform the functions of county boards of education as
provided by State law and shall have power to adopt rules and
regulations for the administration of schools within the county not
inconsistent with State law and the bylaws, rules and regulations
of the State Board of Education; provided, however, that all action
shall be accomplished after a public meeting, the formal record of
which shall likewise be public. Nothing in this section shall be
deemed to deny the power of the Board to meet and deliberate in
executive session provided, however, that all action of the Board
together with the individual vote of each member shall be a matter
of formal public record.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act is hereby
declared to be an emergency measure and necessary for the im-
mediate preservation of the public health and safety and having
been passed by a yea and nay vote supported by three-fifths of all
the members elected to each of the two houses of the General Assem-
bly, the same shall take effect from the date of its passage.

Approved April 28, 1970

CHAPTER 473
(House Bill 416)

AN ACT to repeal Section 12(b) of Article 77 of the Annotated Code
of Maryland (1969 Replacement Volume), title "Public Educa-
tion," subtitle "State Board of Education," and to enact new
Section 12(b) in lieu thereof, to stand in the place of the section
repealed, to revise the method of revoking certificates of approval
for private schools to operate or function in the State of Maryland,
including the vesting of the initial power of revocation in the
State Superintendent of Schools in place of the State Board of
Education, the creating of a method of appeal to the State Board
of Education from the decision of the State Superintendent of
Schools and procedures relating generally to the determination of
a final decision on revocation.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 12(b) of Article 77 of the Annotated Code of Maryland
(1969 Replacement Volume), title "Public Education," subtitle
"State Board of Education," be and it is hereby repealed; and that
new Section 12(b) of said Article, title and subtitle be and it is
hereby added, to stand in the place of the section repealed and to
read as follows:

[(b) Issuance and revocation.—The State Superintendent of
Schools shall issue a certificate of approval to any applicant operat-
ing or proposing to operate such a private school or educational
institution whose conditions of entrance, scholarship, educational