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toe zouu scooo: enrollment in the State. Towns constituting * separate school district for the purpose of being operated is i sepante school district shell be entitled to receive their proportionate share of the amounts allocated under this section to the county or counties i® which the towns are located, to be determined as between the eounties and towns concerned on the same basis of distribution used by the State in making the allocation of such funds to the counties and cities. -f 8. Of the amounts hereby appropriated ten per cent, leas such; amount as is expended for buildings and equipment for aiding the de* ▼elopment of vocational education as provided in f 6 of this Act, shall constitute an equalisation fund to be made available to those counties and cities where the need is greater and in which a reasonable effort has been made by the local authorities to meet their own needs. The equalisation fund shall be allocated among those counties and cities •which satisfy the State Board of Education in the manner provided by the rules and regulations adopted by it pursuant to this Act that:
(a) they have projected a well-planned school building construetion program through June 80, 1954, satisfactory to the State Board of Education; and that k ? ^ ;
(b) they are expending^rOr have expended froin local sources for current school operation, exclusive of capital outlay and debt service, an amount equivalent to a tax levy of seventy cents per hundred dolof
true valuation of locally taxed wealth within such counties or cities as determined by the State Department of Taxation. For the allocation of the equalization fund set apart from the first thirty million dollars appropriated by this Aet, the school year 1949-1950 shall v be used in determining the amount expended or being expended from local sources for current school operation. For the allocation of the 'equalization fund set apart from the fifteen million dollars appropriated for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1951, the school year 19511952 shall be used in determining the amount expended or being expended from local sources for current school operation; and that
1«) the true value of locally taxed wealth within such counties or cities per pupil in actual enrollment, no't including those attending kindergarten, is less than the combined average of locally taxed wealth' per pupil in all tiffe1 counties and cities of the State. For the allocation of the equalization fund set apart from the first thirty million dollars appropriated by this Act, the actual enrollment existing on December 1, 1949, shall be used. For the allocation of the equalization fund set apart from the fifteen million dollars appropriation for tbe fiscal year beginning July 1, 1951, the actual enrollment existing on December 1, 1951, shall be used.
The equalization funds herein provided for shall be distributed on the basis of six hundred dollars per pupil in actual elementary enrollment and eight hundred dollars per pupil in actual secondary enrollment for whom the State Board of Education is satisfied that new construction is needed, less any funds allocated to the county or city under f 2 of this Act; provided, however, if the amount of the appropriation is insufficient to meet the entire needs of those counties and cities which qualify for allocations from the equalization funds, the amount of the equalization funds shall be distributed to such counties and cities on a pro rata basis. But no county or city shall receive in excess of 5% of such equalization fund. ‘ .
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