506                              Laws of Maryland                       [Ch. 374

CHAPTER 374

(Senate Bill 221)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 244 of
Article 77 of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1957 Edition),
title "Public Education", sub-title "Chapter 25. Miscellaneous",
removing from a series of definitions concerning public educa-
tion a definition of the words "handicapped children" and clarify-
ing the provisions of this section. BY CHANGING A REFER-
ENCE THEREIN TO "SUB-TITLE" TO THE WORD "TITLE".

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 244 of Article 77 of the Annotated Code of Maryland
(1957 Edition), title "Public Education", sub-title "Chapter 25. Mis-
cellaneous", be and the same is hereby repealed and re-enacted, with
amendments, to read as follows:

244. Wherever the words "superintendent of public education"
occur in this [sub-] title, they shall be construed to mean State Su-
perintendent of Schools; wherever the words "board of county school
commissioners" occur, they shall be construed to mean "county
board of education"; wherever the words "board of district school
trustees" occur, they shall be construed to mean "district board of
school trustees"; [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 wel-
fare, need special public school instruction or training";] wherever
the words the State Normal School at Towson, the State Normal
School at Frostburg, and the State Normal School at Bowie occur in
this article, they shall be construed to mean the State Normal School
at Towson, the State Normal School at Frostburg, the State Normal
School at Salisbury, and the State Normal School at Bowie; wherever
the words "State Normal School" occur in this article to designate a
school which maintains a four-year course of study, they shall be
construed to mean "State Teachers College"; and wherever the term
"principal" occurs in this article to designate the head of a normal
school which maintains a four-year course of study, it shall be con-
strued to mean "president of a State Teachers College."

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
June 1, 1961.

Approved April 24, 1961.

CHAPTER 375
(Senate Bill 223)

AN ACT to add a new Section to Article 77 of the Annotated Code of
Maryland (1957 Edition and 1960 Supplement), title "Public Edu-

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.