J. MILLARD TAWES, GOVERNOR                            415

CHAPTER 322

(Senate Bill 215)

AN ACT to add new Sections 300 to 304, inclusive, to Article 77 of
the Annotated Code of Maryland (1957 Edition), title "Public
Education", to follow immediately after Section 299 thereof and
to be under the new sub-title "Nonpublic Schools", providing for
the regulation, licensing and bonding of persons representing cer-
tain private schools, within or without the State, offering
COURSES OF INSTRUCTION for a fee courses in education or
in trade or industry, and relating generally to such schools and
their representatives.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That new Sections 300 to 304, inclusive, be and they are hereby added
to Article 77 of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1957 Edition),
title "Public Education", to follow immediately after Section 299
thereof and to be under the new sub-title "Nonpublic Schools", and
to read as follows:

NONPUBLIC SCHOOLS
300. (a) As used in this sub-title, the following terms mean:

(b)   "Solicitor" means a person engaged in the business of solicit-
ing for compensation or offering to solicit students within the State
of Maryland to enroll in or apply for any course of instruction
offered by any school.

(c)  "School" means any school or educational institution, how-
ever designated, which charges tuition or fees for attendance, or
instruction and which offers a program of college, professional pre-
paratory, high school, junior high school, elementary, kindergarten,
or nursery school work, or any combination thereof, or which offers
a program of trade or technical education, or both, or which gives
pre-employment or supplementary training, or both, in the fields of
trade or industry, and any and every private school or educational
institution charging tuition or fees for attendance or instruction;
but this term shall not include the following: accredited high schools
and institutions of higher learning, those operated by a bona fide
church organization or schools or educational programs conducted
by firms, corporations or persons for the training of their own em-
ployees, for which no fee is charged, or for any refresher or con-
tinuing education program sponsored by any professional group now
or hereafter sponsoring such program for the exclusive use and
benefit of the members of such professional group, or nonpublic
schools which hold a certificate of approval from the State Super-
intendent of Schools or which are specifically exempted from such
requirement by sub-section (a) of Section 25 of this Article.

801. (a) Every solicitor for any nonpublic school, located within
or without the State of Maryland, shall apply to the State Superin-
tendent of Schools for an annual permit on July 1 of each year.

(b) The application shall be made on forms supplied by the State

Explanation: Italics indicate new matter added to existing law.

[Brackets] indicate matter stricken from existing law.
CAPITALS indicate amendments to bill.
Strike out indicates matter stricken out of bill.