# COMAR Title 13A — State Board of Education

## Subtitle 09 — Nonpublic Schools

### Chapter 01 — General Regulations

**Authority:** Education Article, §§2-205, 2-206, and 2-304, Annotated Code of Maryland

**Administrative History:** Effective date: August 31, 1966

**Administrative History:** Chapter revised effective January 15, 1989 (15:27 Md. R. 3136)

**Administrative History:** Regulation .02 repealed effective December 7, 1992 (19:24 Md. R. 2127)

**Administrative History:** Regulation .02A amended effective July 10, 1989 (16:13 Md. R. 1423)

#### Regulation .01 Use of Names.

*COMAR 13A.09.01.01*

A. An individual, partnership, group, association, cooperative, or corporation may not use the name “preschool”, “school”, “institute”, or “academy” or word of like meaning, in such manner as to connote the offering of a high school, junior high or middle school, elementary school, kindergarten, nursery school program, or any combination thereof, unless the individual, partnership, group, association, cooperative, or corporation shall have first obtained a certificate of approval from the State Board of Education in the manner provided by the law.

B. This regulation does not apply to bona fide church organizations or to individuals or entities who offer or arrange for instruction solely for avocational purposes.

C. This regulation does not apply to a school or institution operated by the federal government or any state, county, or municipal agency or division of these.

#### Regulation .02 Repealed.

*COMAR 13A.09.01.02*

#### Regulation .03 Tentative Approval.

*COMAR 13A.09.01.03*

It shall be the policy of the State Board of Education to approve certain schools on a temporary basis for periods of 1 year or more pending final approval. This approval shall have the same force as full approval. The school will be under very close observation during this temporary period.