468                              Laws of Maryland                       Ch. 191

266.

Any person who shall accept or receive a completion certificate
or other evidence that performance of a home-improvement contract
is complete or satisfactorily concluded, with knowledge that such
document is false and that the performance is not completed, [and]
or who shall utter, offer or use such document in connection with the
making or accepting of any assignment or negotiation of the right
to receive any payment from the owner, under or in connection with
a home-improvement contract, or for the purpose of obtaining or
granting any credit or loan on the security of the .right to receive
any payment, as aforesaid, knowing or having good reason to know
such document to be false, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and
subject to a fine not exceeding $5,000.00 or to imprisonment for a
term not exceeding three years, or both.

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

Approved April 15, 1970

CHAPTER 191
(House Bill 767)

AN ACT to add new Section 9A to Article 77A of the Annotated
Code of Maryland (1969 Replacement Volume), title "Higher
Education," subtitle "Community Colleges," to follow immediately
after Section 9 thereof, providing for the creation of a Charles
County Community College Board of Trustees, and relating gener-
ally thereto.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That new Section 9A be and it is hereby added to Article 77A of
the Annotated Code of Maryland (1969 Replacement Volume), title
"Higher Education," subtitle "Community Colleges," to follow im-
mediately after Section 9 thereof, and to read as follows:

9A.

Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 9 of this Article,
Charles County Community College Board of Trustees shall be cre-
ated, separate and distinct from the Charles County Board of Educa-
tion. The Board of Trustees shall consist of seven members. The
Governor, with the advice and consent of the Senate, shall appoint
the members of the Board, who must be residents of Charles County.
At least five (5) members shall have completed sixty (60) semester
hours of accredited college work and all shall receive expenses of six
hundred dollars per year. Of the seven members appointed initially,
five shall be appointed for initial terms of from one to five years,
respectively, and the sixth and seventh members shall be appointed
for initial terms of six years each. As any such appointment expires,
and thereafter, the appointing authority shall appoint a successor
for a full term of six years. Any member of the board may be
appointed to a successive term. Among the initial appointees there
shall be one member of the Charles County Board of Education who