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amounts are so ascertained, the State Superintendent of
Schools shall certify the same to the State Comptroller.

236. Wherever the words "Superintendent of Public Edu-
cation" occur in this Article, they shall be construed to mean
"State Superintendent of Schools"; wherever the words "Board
of County School Commissioners" occur, they shall be con-
strued to mean "County Board of Education"; and wherever
the words "Board of District School Trustees" occur, they
shall be construed to mean "District Board of School Trus-
tees"; and wherever the words "handicapped children" occur,
they shall be construed to mean "all children between the ages
of six and eighteen years, inclusive, who, because of mental or
physical handicap, are incapable of receiving proper benefit
from ordinary public school instruction and who, for their own
or the social welfare, need special public school instruction or
training. "

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That Section 15A of
Article 43 of the 1929 Supplement to the Annotated Code of
the Public General Laws of Maryland, entitled "Health, " be
and the same is hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amend-
ments, so as to read as follows:

15A. It shall be the duty of the State Board of Health,
upon receipt of reports of the names and addresses of physi-
cally handicapped children as provided for in Article 77 of
the Annotated Code of Maryland, to, in so far as possible, cause
each such child to be examined by a deputy State health officer
or by any other qualified physician, if without expense to the
State, for the purpose of ascertaining the nature and extent of
the physical disability of each such child and whether or not
such child is physically unable to properly care for itself with-
out assistance and whether or not it can properly or advan-
tageously be educated in the regular public schools with normal
children, and whether or not it ought to have clinical, thera-
peutic, or hospital treatment, and such board shall appropriate-
ly classify each such child according to the nature and degree
of its disability and report such classification and recommenda-
tions to the County Board of Education wherever such child
resides, and also to the State Board of Education.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect on June 1, 1931.

Approved April 6, 1931.
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