994 ARTICLE 77.

1929, ch. 152, sec. 235A. 1931, ch. 159, sec. 235A.

235A. It shall be the duty of flic State Board of Health, upon receipt
of information as to handicapped children, as provided for in Sections 36
and 235 hereof, to, in so far as possible, cause each physically handicapped
child to be examined and to be appropriately classified according to the
nature and degree of his or her handicap. The State Board of Health shall
at the same time designate which such children are physically unable to
properly care for themselves without assistance and to properly or ad-
vantageously be educated in the regular public schools with normal chil-
dren and shall recommend which such children ought to have clinical,
therapeutic, or hospital treatment. When such classifications and recom-
mendations shall have been made, the State Board of Health shall report
the same to the respective school boards from which the names of such
handicapped children were received, and also to the State Board of Edu-
cation.

As to State Board of Health, see art. 43, sec. 1, et seq.

1929, ch. 152, sec. 235B. 1931, ch. 159, sec. 235B.

235B. It shall be the duty of the State Board of Education, to set up
standards, rules and regulations for the examination, classification and
education of such handicapped children in the counties of the State who
can be benefited under the provisions of this Act; such standards, rules
and regulations to include the prescribing of qualifications of teachers, the
curriculum and equipment, and the supervision of the program which
may be inaugurated by the County Board of Education for each such
handicapped child. The expenses incurred by any of the counties of the
State in establishing special classes for mentally handicapped children in
accordance with standards, rules and regulations of the State Board of
Education shall be paid in the same manner as the ordinary expenses for
'the support of schools in the several counties of the State; provided that
in calculating the cost of the minimum program as a basis for determining
the amount of the equalization fund which a county is entitled to receive,
each such special class shall be considered as a separate unit. And wher-
ever the City of Baltimore or any of the counties of the State shall inaugu-
rate a special program, of instruction under standards, rules and regula-
tions of the State Board of Education to meet the needs of any child
whose handicap is physical only and whose needs are not met by ordinary
school facilities, the city or counties so providing the same shall be
entitled to receive, toward the cost of teachers, special equipment, nursing,
therapeutic treatment and transportation, an amount not to exceed two
hundred dollars ($200. 00) per child, to be paid by the State of Maryland
out of a special fund to be appropriated for such purpose in the State
Public School Budget. The State Superintendent of Schools shall ascer-
tain the respective amounts the City of Baltimore and the counties shall
be so entitled to receive from the State under this section, and when such
amounts are so ascertained, the State Superintendent of Schools shall
certify the same to the State Comptroller.