2022                                        LAWS OF MARYLAND                                 Ch. 671

by a local county board of education; repealing certain

provisions providing for adjustments concerning

holidays, length of school day and monthly school
period; generally relating to schools; and making part
of this Act an emergency measure.

FOR the purpose of permitting the State Board of Education
to reduce the minimum number of school days required
for certain school years for the counties and Baltimore

City under certain circumstances; eliminating the

requirement to open schools on holidays under certain
circumstances; clarifying language; and making certain
provisions of this Act an emergency measure.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article 77 - Public Education

Section 73 and 75

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1975 Replacement Volume and 1977 Supplement)

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article - Education

Section 7-103(b)

Annotated Code of Maryland

(As enacted by Chapter ___ of the Acts

of the General Assembly of 1978)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That section(s) of the Annotated Code of Maryland
be repealed, amended, or enacted to read as follows:

Article 77 - Public Education

73.

(a) All persons between the ages of five and twenty
years shall be admitted free of charge to the public schools
of the State provided, however, that in those counties that
do not on July 1, 1971 provide kindergartens or which on
this date provide less than full kindergarten programs,
implementation of full kindergarten programs shall be phased
in by September of 1973, but in no event shall full programs
be mandatory before September of 1973 provided, however,
that full kindergarten programs shall be implemented by
September of 1970 in Allegany and Carroll counties. Except
as provided in (b), such public schools under the
jurisdiction of boards of education shall be kept open for
not less than one hundred eighty (180) actual school days
during the ten—month period of each school year.

(b) Upon written application from a county board of
education or the Board of School Commissioners of Baltimore
City containing a description of a demonstrated effort by
the individual board to comply with the provisions of (a)