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the county as will produce the amount requested to be raised by local
taxation in the annual budget of the county board of education. The
amount requested in the annual budget of the county board of educa-
tion for current repairs, furniture in old buildings, maintenance
and support of the schools, for the succeeding school year, and to be
raised by local taxation shall not hereafter in any year be less than a
minimum tax, levied and collected, of 30 cents on each one hundred
dollars ($100) of the assessable property in the county. Provided,
further, that the total amount requested for any one school year by
the county board of education for permanent improvements and
repairs, current repairs, furniture in old buildings, maintenance and
support of the schools shall not exceed a tax levied and collected of
40 cents on each one hundred dollars ($100) of the assessable prop-
erty in the county, unless the board of county commissioners shall
approve and sanction such additional tax. Provided, also, that if the
total amount requested for any one school year by the county board
of education be raised by local taxation exceeds a tax levied and
collected of 40 cents on each one hundred dollars ($100) of the
assessable property in the county and such additional tax is not
approved and sanctioned by the board of county commissioners, the
county commissioners shall indicate in writing what item or items of
the annual budget of the county board of education have been denied
in whole or in part, and the reason for the denial in whole or in part
of the respective items. Taxes so levied and collected shall be sep-
arately indicated on tax bills and tax receipts, and shall be known as
the county school tax. Taxes so levied shall be collected as other taxes
and shall be paid monthly to the treasurer of the county board of
education in as nearly equal amounts as possible, beginning on or
before the tenth of October of each year and continuing up to and
including June; provided that taxes levied and collected for per-
manent improvements and repairs or special purposes may be required
to be paid oftener, upon the order of the president and secretary of
the county board of education to the board of county commissioners.
All taxes received by the county board of education shall be expended
by them in accordance with the items of their annual budget. Any
sum of money which may have been specially levied and collected on
any election or schoolhouse district for the educational purposes con-
nected with such district shall be collected for and applied to the
purpose so intended originally and shall be used for no other purpose;
and if said funds have been used otherwise, they shall be returned
and applied as aforesaid.

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

Approved April 24, 1961.

CHAPTER 602
(House Bill 265)

AN ACT to repeal Section 148 of Article 66½ of the Annotated
Code of Maryland (1960 Supplement), title "Motor Vehicles",
sub-title "Motor Vehicle Financial Responsibility", and to repeal