WM. PRESTON LANE, JR., GOVERNOR. 867

stitution charging tuition or fees for attendance, except those
operated by bona fide church organizations, must secure a
certificate of approval issued by the State Superintendent of
Schools, before it may begin or continue to operate or function
in this State. Provided, that nothing in this section shall be
construed as having application to any school or college that
is now operating under a charter granted by the Legislature
of Maryland.

(b) The State Superintendent of Schools shall issue a cer-
tificate of approval to any applicant operating or proposing
to operate such a private school or educational institution
whose conditions of entrance, scholarship, educational quali-
fications, standards and facilities are adequate and appro-
priate for the purposes, program, training and courses to be
taught or given therein. Any such certificate may be revoked
at any time for cause by the State Board of Education but
only in the manner herein described. Before any such certifi-
cate may be revoked the State Superintendent of Schools shall
first give the school involved a written notice of his intention
to require such school to show cause before the State Board of
Education why such certificate of approval should not be re-
voked. Such notice of intention shall clearly specify the
grounds for his proposed action and shall give such school
thirty days in which to correct the conditions complained of
therein. If at the end of said thirty day period, or such ex-
tensions thereof as may be granted by the State Super-
intendent of Schools, the State Superintendent of Schools
shall still be dissatisfied he shall give such school a
written order requiring such school to show cause, if any,
at a hearing before the State Board of Education to be held
at a specific time therein designated, not less than thirty
days after the date of such order, why such school's certificate
of approval should not be revoked. Upon such hearing or
upon the failure of any representative of the school to attend
such hearing, the State Board of Education may revoke such
certificate of approval by an order of revocation effective
fifteen days from the date thereof, provided that said revoca-
tion shall be stayed if within such fifteen day period such
school files an appeal from the Board's decision to the Circuit
Court of the county wherein the applicant purposes to operate,
or to the Superior Court of Baltimore City, if the applicant
purposes to operate therein. Any applicant who has been
denied a certificate shall be entitled to a hearing before the
State Board of Education which may affirm or reverse the
action of the State Superintendent of Schools. Any applicant
adversely affected by a decision of the State Board of Educa-,
tion affirming the action of the State Superintendent of Schools
in denying a certificate may appeal from the Board's decision