802                              LAWS OF MARYLAND                      [CH. 582

county commissioners or county council or any county and the mayor
and city council of Baltimore City have the power to borrow funds
for the purchase of land and the construction of capital improvements
for said purposes upon such terms and conditions as they deem right
and proper, subject to the general requirements of local laws ap-
plicable to the creation of public debt. Funds to be appropriated or
borrowed for a regional community college shall be provided for on
a pro-rata basis determined by the ratio of population of each of the
counties comprising the region and supporting said regional com-
munity college, to the population of the entire region. FOR THE
PURPOSES OF THIS SECTION THE POPULATION OF THE
RESPECTIVE COUNTIES SHALL BE AS DETERMINED BY
THE STATE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH FROM TIME TO
TIME.

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(a) Each community college or regional community college oper-
ating under the provisions of this sub-title shall be financed on the
general basis of receiving one-third of its current expenses from the
State, one-third from the county or counties (or Baltimore City)
[in] for which it is [located] established, and one-third from fees
and charges required from students at the community college. In
this computation, "current expenses" shall be the product of the
per-student operating cost for the preceding school year multiplied
by the number of full-time equivalent students enrolled in the current
school year.

(c)   In any political subdivision [in] for which a community col-
lege or regional community college is operating under the provisions
of this sub-title, the board of county commissioners, county council,
or mayor and city council of Baltimore shall provide and pay to the
community college, regional community college or colleges [therein]
so operating the political [subdivision's] subdivisions' one-third
share of current expenses. The State Superintendent of Schools shall
certify to the treasurer of each county or of Baltimore City as the
case may be on or before the last day of both September and March
in each year one-half of the annual amount which is due the local
board of trustees of each community college and thereupon the
treasurer within five days of each of these dates shall draw his
warrant on the county or the City of Baltimore as the case may be
and shall pay the amount due to the board of trustees of the com-
munity college, regional community college or colleges [in] for his
respective political subdivision. The counties comprising the region
for and supporting a regional community college shall share in the
payment of the political subdivisions' one-third share of current
expenses, on a pro-rata basis determined by the ratio of the full-time
student population in the regional community college, from each
county, to the full-time student population in the regional community
college from all the counties of the region. THE DEPARTMENT OF
EDUCATION SHALL DETERMINE THE PORTIONS OF THE
COST CHARGEABLE TO EACH COUNTY, BASED ON CUR-
RENT ENROLLMENT FIGURES, AND SHALL CERTIFY SUCH
DETERMINATION OF COST TO EACH PARTICIPATING
COUNTY.

(d)   Students from outside the State of Maryland who attend a
community college or regional community college shall pay a full