MARVIN MANDEL, Governor                            2523

Section 52 (a) and (b)

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1969 Replacement Volume and 1973 Supplement)

BY adding to

Article 77 — Public Education

Section 52 (b) and (c)

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1969 Replacement Volume and 1973 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That Section 52 (a) and (b) of Article 77 -
Public Education, of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1969
Replacement Volume and 1973 Supplement) be and it is
hereby repealed and re—enacted, with amendments, to read
as follows:

Article 77 — Public Education
52.

(a) Schools in one county (hereinafter referred to
as the "receiving county") but near the dividing line of
an adjoining county shall be free to the children of the
adjoining county to the extent hereinafter provided. The
county boards of education of the two counties shall have
the power to provide jointly for the maintenance and
support of such schools in the receiving county and to
determine the geographical attendance areas and other
attendance policies of the two counties for all such
schools in the receiving county.

[ (b) Should] IF the two county boards of education
fail to agree [as to the amount of maintenance and
support each should give to such schools, ] ON A
GEOGRAPHICAL ATTENDANCE AREA OR ATTENDANCE POLICY, the
State Superintendent of Schools shall decide the matter[,
provided that the receiving county is granted one hundred
per cent (100%) of the cost of educating said child in
the receiving county. The receiving county shall
receive, as a minimum for each pupil from the adjoining
county who attends such schools the basic foundation
State aid per pupil authorized by § 128A of this article
for the adjoining county or for the receiving county,
whichever is greater].

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That new
Sections 52(b) and (c) be and they are hereby added to
Article 77 — Public Education, of the Annotated Code of