Subtitle 1 – City Public Schools

The Board of School Commissioners is hereby authorized to receive all devises, bequests, and donations which may be made for the benefit of said public schools.

All devices, bequests, and donations received by said board, by virtue either of this section or of any act or acts of the General Assembly of Maryland, shall be paid over by it to the Director of Finance, who shall place the same to the credit of the school fund.

If any condition or conditions be prescribed in any such devise, bequest, or donation, the same shall be applied under the direction of said Board, with the sanction of the Mayor and City Council, agreeably to the intention of the testator or donor.

shall be held subject to the order of the Board of School Commissioners of the City of Baltimore, in like manner as the funds derived from taxation for said purposes are held; and

are declared to be a separate and distinct revenue, to be applied to the use and support of the public schools, in addition to the annual tax levied and the annual appropriation made for that purpose.

Whenever said Board shall intend to apply any portion or all of the aforesaid funds, hereafter received from intestate estates, the warrant or order drawn for said funds, or any portion thereof, shall show upon its face that it is drawn upon said funds.

It shall be the duty of the City Comptroller and the Director of Finance to keep a separate account of all receipts and disbursements for said special and specific fund.

There shall be no charge for tuition or for the use of books or stationery in any of the public schools, but it shall be the duty of the Board of School Commissioners to furnish, free of all costs to the pupils and their parents, all the necessary tuition and the use of books and stationery for the several schools, and in general, whatever fuel or other supplies the schools may require, the same to be paid for from the public school fund.

Provided, however, that in the maintenance of junior colleges or similar institutions for post-high school instruction, in the maintenance of extended-care nursery schools, in offering courses to adults, and in offering summer school enrichment non-credit courses to pupils deemed qualified by the Board of School Commissioners, authority for the establishment and maintenance of said types of instruction being thereby granted, the Board of School Commissioners is hereby authorized to charge such fees as it shall from time to time determine.

Children of non-resident parents or guardians may be admitted to said schools upon payment for tuition as prescribed in this section, subject to such rules as the Board of School Commissioners may from time to time prescribe, and subject always to the prior right of the children of residents of Baltimore to the use of said schools.

The Board of Estimates is authorized and directed upon recommendation of the Board of School Commissioners to establish a scale of tuition fees and to change the same from time to time upon recommendation of the Board of School Commissioners.

The Board of Estimates shall have power and authority upon recommendation of the Board of School Commissioners to waive tuition fees in any case where the said Board of Estimates shall find that the public interest and welfare will be promoted by such waiver.

As used herein:

“Employees” means any of the following employees of the Department of Education of the City of Baltimore:

“Employee organization” means any organization:

The School Board may determine which employee organization, if any, claiming to represent the employees, or an appropriate unit thereof, shall be the exclusive representative of said employees, or of such unit, as the case may be, or if no employee organization shall be their exclusive representative, such determination to be based upon an election by secret ballot.

If an election is conducted pursuant to § 1-22, no further election shall be held for an exclusive representative of the employees in the unit in which said election was conducted for a period of 2 years from the date of the School Board’s certification of the results of said election.

Subsequent elections may be held upon the filing of a petition with the School Board, supported by 30% or more of the employees of an appropriate unit, alleging that the said employees in said unit desire:

The School Board may, upon verifying the requisite percentage, determine by secret ballot election which employee organization, if any, shall be the exclusive representative of such employees; provided, however, that no valid election shall have been conducted in said unit within the preceding 2 years.

The said Board may adopt reasonable rules and regulations for the conduct of said elections and the certification of the results thereof.

In all elections, the School Board shall certify the employee organization, if any, selected as the result of said election by a majority of the votes cast, as the exclusive representative of all employees eligible to vote in said election.

The employee organization so designated shall act as the representative of all of the aforesaid employees in the unit, as the case may be, without regard to employee organization membership, in appearing before, presenting to, and conferring with the School Board, with respect to the wages and working conditions of said employees.

However, nothing herein contained shall preclude the right of any employee to present and seek adjustment of grievances on his own behalf under any grievance procedure which may be adopted by the School Board nor shall any employee or employees be prevented from appearing on their own behalf before the School Board to urge or protest against any proposed wages or working conditions affecting such employee or employees.

Employee organizations shall be prohibited:

Each member shall represent an organization that:

Persons who represent an organization on the Committee shall:

The Mayor shall appoint the members and their representatives to the Committee.

The purpose of the Committee is to make recommendations to the Mayor for membership on the Board of School Commissioners.

It shall be the responsibility of the Committee to:

The Committee may include in the list sent to the Mayor comments on any candidate.

Prior to final selection of a site for the construction of a new school, the Planning Commission shall consult with the Board of Fire Commissioners, the Police Commissioner, the Department of Public Works, the Department of Transportation, and the Department of Housing and Community Development about the proposed site.

Such consultations shall be in the form of written communications, accompanied by plats indicating the site.

Recommendations of the parties consulted shall be transmitted to the Planning Commission in writing within 30 days of the proposal.

Off-street parking space for teachers and staff shall not be provided on any land under the jurisdiction of the Department of Education, except where approved by the Mayor and City Council.

Parking space designated for teachers and staff before August 4, 1972, shall not be affected by this section.

It shall be unlawful for any person to enter any public school building owned or leased by the City of Baltimore or its agencies without immediately registering at the office of the principal or other designated head of that school.

Such registrant shall be required to furnish his name, address, and occupation, and shall state the reason for his presence in the building. In addition, he shall furnish positive identification that he is that person so registering.

The provisions of this section shall not apply to teachers, students, or employees at the particular school.

Any violation of the provisions of this section shall be deemed a misdemeanor, subject upon conviction to a fine of not more than $500 or to imprisonment for not longer than 6 months or to both fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the Court.

The Board of School Commissioners of Baltimore City is hereby empowered to demand and collect from the parents and guardians of children who have attended the public schools but have left the said schools, all books and other property which were furnished the said children during their attendance at said schools if the same are in the possession of said parents or guardians.

In case of the refusal or neglect of the said parents or guardians to deliver to the Board of School Commissioners or its agent such books and other property as may be in their possession after demand therefore <em>{sic}</em>, they shall be subject to a fine of $5 for each and every offense, said fines to be collected as other fines are now collected.

to accept and receive the premiums given by the Trustees of the Peabody Institute to the High Schools of Baltimore City, as specified in Mr. Peabody’s letter to his trustees; and

to have the same distributed from time to time in such a manner as it shall deem most conducive to the benefit of the schools and the objects of the donor.