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LAWS OF MARYLAND

[Ch. 254

Public Education - Public Library Funding

FOR the purpose of increasing the per capita expenditure
for public libraries from $1.80 to $3.00; changing
the State percentage share of these expenditures
from 30% to 40% and the county share from 70% to
60%; redefining wealth to include net taxable
income; [[adding a provision that no county shall
levy less for public library purposes than it levied
for fiscal 1975;]] and relating generally to the
financing of public libraries.

BY repealing and re—enacting, with amendments,

Article 77 — Public Education

Section 176(a), (c) , (d), (e) and (f)

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1969 Replacement Volume and 1974 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That Sections 176 (a), (c), (d), (e) and (f) of
Article 77 — Public Education, of the Annotated Code of
Maryland (1969 Replacement Volume and 1974 Supplement) be
and they are hereby repealed and re—enacted, with
amendments, to read as follows:

Article 77 - Public Education

176.

(a)(1) "County" includes Baltimore City.

(2)   The population figures used in this section
shall be those obtained from the federal decennial census
and in the intervening years from estimates prepared by
the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene as of July 1,
of the year preceding the fiscal year.

(3)   ["Taxable wealth" used in computing State aid
herein shall be the assessable property in each county as
determined by the State Department of Assessments and
Taxation. ] "WEALTH" MEANS THE SUM OF NET TAXABLE INCOME
AND ADJUSTED ASSESSED VALUATION OF REAL PROPERTY.

(4)    "Expenditures in which the State shares" shall
be the current operating expenditures of approved public
libraries participating in the cooperative program under
the provisions of this section within the limits provided
in subsection (c).

(5)   [The taxable wealth of each county and of the
State as a whole shall be divided by the population in