16                                Laws of Maryland                         Ch. 15

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
July 1, 1970.

Approved April 1, 1970

CHAPTER 15
(Senate Bill 246)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 36 of
Article 77A of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1969 Replace-
ment Volume), title "Higher Education," subtitle "Scholarships,"
to remove certain superfluous and unnecessary language from that
section of the Code relating to transmission of results of com-
petitive examinations administered by the State Scholarship Board.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 36 of Article 77A of the Annotated Code of Maryland
(1969 Replacement Volume), title "Higher Education," subtitle
"Scholarships," be and it is hereby repealed and re-enacted, with
amendments, to read as follows:

36.

Any award to be made according to the provisions of this subtitle
shall be given only to an applicant who has met the following condi-
tions: (1) That he shall have passed, in the academic year preceding
that for which the award is to be made, a competitive examination
to be administered by the State Scholarship Board in accordance
with rules and regulations adopted and promulgated by that Board,
the pertinent results of which shall be transmitted [to the respec-
tive participating institutions and] to the respective appointing
authorities, except that when an award is made to a student who
is already enrolled in an institution of higher learning and has
completed one year of study in good academic standing, the require-
ment for an examination is waived, (2) that he shall have been,
at the time of the examination, a resident of the State and of the
senatorial district or subdistrict of the State from which he seeks
appointment, except as otherwise provided elsewhere in this article,
(3) that he shall have been accepted for admission to the regular
undergraduate program of the institution at which the award is to
be used and (4) that he shall have accepted any other conditions
attached to the granting of the award by the law or by regulations
adopted pursuant thereto. The respective appointing authorities, in
making their appointments, shall take into consideration the financial
needs of the several applicants as determined by the State Scholar-
ship Board in accordance with the uniform rules and regulations
adopted and promulgated by that Board, which shall be so prepared
and applied as to assure that definite financial need shall be a pre-
requisite to receiving an award under the provisions of this section.
Once appointed to receive an award according to the provisions
of this section, a student shall be entitled to hold the award for
four academic years, except as otherwise provided elsewhere in
this section; provided that he becomes and remains enrolled in
the institution at which the award is used in a full-time (minimum