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half of the annual amount (whether computed on the basis of a
school year or of an academic term) which is due the local board
of trustees of each community college and thereupon the Comptroller
within five days shall draw his warrant on the Treasurer of the
State of Maryland for the respective amounts due the said local
boards of trustees; and the Treasurer of the State of Maryland upon
receiving such warrants shall immediately pay the amounts due to
the respective local boards of trustees.

9.

(b) Upon the request of a local board of education as provided
in subsection (a) of this section, a local board of community college
trustees, composed of seven members shall be appointed. The Gov-
ernor, with the advice and consent of the Senate, shall appoint the
members of said board for said county, except in Baltimore City
and such board shall be appointed by the mayor and city council.
Of the seven members first appointed to any local board, 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. The terms of office of the members of any
local board appointed by the Governor shall commence on July 1
of the year of appointment by the Governor. If any local board
has been created prior to July 1, 1969, and the terms of its members
expire on a date other than June 30, the terms of such members
shall be extended to the June 30 following the original expiration
date of such appointment. Any member of the board may be ap-
pointed to a successive term. Among the appointees the appointing
authority shall include one member of the board of education for
the county or the board of school commissioners for Baltimore City
[.] , except in Prince George's County. WHERE THE BOARD OF
TRUSTEES SHALL APPOINT ONE OF ITS MEMBERS TO
SERVE AS LIAISON TO THE BOARD OF EDUCATION. Any
local board of trustees shall organize and select its own chairman
from time to time.

9.

(b 1) In Prince George's County, the members of the local board
of community college trustees shall receive eighteen hundred dollars
($1,800.00) per annum as reimbursement for traveling, and other
expenses incident to attending board meetings and transacting the
business of the board.

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

Approved April 22, 1970

CHAPTER 304
(Senate Bill 666)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 5 (2) (c)
of Chapter 27 of the Laws of Maryland 1964 to provide a change