MARVIN MANDEL, Governor                             1171

There is hereby levied and imposed a tax at the rate
of one per centum on every one hundred dollars of the
clear value of any and all property, having a taxable
situs in this State, passing at the death of any resident
or nonresident decedent, in trust or otherwise, to or for
the use of the father, mother, husband, wife, children,
lineal descendants of such decedent or any stepchild or
stepparent of the decedent, [the] THE rate of 1 percent
shall apply also to the amount of any joint savings
account passing at the death of the decedent by
survivorship to a spouse of a lineal descendant up to an
aggregate of $2,000 for all accounts held jointly with
any such spouse, any amount in excess of that amount to
be taxed at the collateral rate provided in § 150.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act
shall take effect July 1, 1976.

Approved May 4, 1976.

CHAPTER 447
(House Bill 880)

AN ACT concerning

Corrective Bill — Public Education

FOR the purpose of correcting technical errors in the
laws relating to public education.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article 77 - Public Education

Section 73A (c) and 128A(b)(3) and (c)(6)

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1975 Replacement Volume and 1975 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That Sections 73A(c) and 128A(b)(3) and (c)(6)
of Article 77 — Public Education, of the Annotated Code
of Maryland (1975 Replacement Volume and 1975 Supplement)
be and they are hereby repealed and reenacted, with
amendments, to read as follows:

Article 77 — Public Education

73A.

(c) The parent or guardian completing the
affidavit of disclosure shall attest to the truth of the
information [contain] CONTAINED in it by his or her