§ 1-16. Free attendance for residents and certain others.

(a) In general.

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.

(b) Persons entitled to free attendance.

(1) The public schools of the City of Baltimore are intended to promote the general welfare of its citizens and are maintained exclusively for the education of the children whose parents or guardians are actual residents of said City.

(2) But the children of any member of the U. S. Army, Navy, Marine Corps, or Coast Guard stationed in the City of Baltimore shall be admitted to said schools without paying any tuition while the said member is stationed in the City.

(3) But children residing in Baltimore whose parents or guardians are residents of the insular territories or possessions of the United States and children attending and residing at the Maryland School for the Blind shall be admitted to said schools.

(c) Programs subject to tuition.

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.