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and 129] §128A of this article; the necessary costs of transporting pupils to public
schools when such transportation is approved by the State Superintendent of
Schools; and the school building construction aid as provided in §130 of this
article. Except as otherwise provided in this section, the Comptroller shall not
charge against and pay from the General State School Fund any appropriations
made to accomplish the purposes of §130A of this article.

(c) All funds which the county board of education and the mayor and city
council of Baltimore may be authorized to expend for schools, other than State
appropriations, AND FEDERAL EDUCATION AID PAYMENTS and
exclusive of the amount authorized to be expended for debt service and capital
outlay, may, for the purposes of calculating the local share under [§ 128] §128A,
be considered as levied by the board of county commissioners and by the mayor
and city council of Baltimore, irrespective of the source or sources from which
such funds may be derived. But no such appropriation to any county, except as
heretofore in this section provided, or to any academy, or to any college or
university may be paid from the General State School Fund.

127.

The State Superintendent of Schools shall certify to the Comptroller ten (10)
days before the end of July, September, November, January, March, and May, the
amounts due on said dates to the Board of School Commissioners of the City of
Baltimore and to the county boards of education of the several counties, on
account of the annual State share of BASIC current expenses [and the annual
current expense incentive aid] as provided in [§§128 and 129] §128A. The
Comptroller shall within five days of the above said dates, draw his warrant on the
Treasurer of the State of Maryland for the respective amounts due the City of
Baltimore and the treasurers of the county boards of education of the several
counties. On the receipt of the warrant of the Comptroller, the Treasurer of the
State of Maryland shall immediately pay the respective amounts due the City of
Baltimore and the treasurers of the county boards of education of the several
counties.

130.

(b) For the school year 1967-68 and thereafter, each county and Baltimore City
shall be entitled to and shall be paid by the State of Maryland each year in the
manner and subject to the limitations hereinafter provided an amount to be known
as school building construction aid which shall be calculated as follows:

(1)  The State shall share in an expenditure for school construction which shall
equal 80 percent of approved expenditures up to $1,500 times the number of
"pupils housed" in school buildings for which construction contracts have been let
prior to February 1, 1971. For 1967-68 only, the product of 50 percent of the
number of kindergarten pupils enrolled as of September 30, 1966, and $1,500 shall
be added to the approved expenditures in making this calculation. No moneys shall
be paid by the State pursuant to this paragraph for school buildings or
improvements for which contracts have been executed on or after February 1,
1971.

(2)  The State shall also share in an amount equal to 80 percent of the principal
and interest payments due during the current fiscal year on local debt for school
construction to house pupils, as defined in paragraph (4) of the subsection,
outstanding or obligated as of June 30, 1967, exclusive of any debt obligated for
school construction included in the provisions of subparagraph (1) of the
subsection. "Local debt for school construction" as used in this paragraph shall
include any debt incurred as the result of moneys made available to any political