1422                             Laws of Maryland                      [Ch. 668

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;
but if the applicant is adjudged to have definite financial need in the
final judgment of a THE AWARDING member of the General As-
sembly from the county or senatorial or legislative district in which
the applicant resides, that fact shall be accepted for the purposes of
this section, and the State Scholarship Board by regulation or other-
wise may not negate the acceptance of this judgment of financial
need or impose upon it requirements of time or procedure. Once
appointed to receive an award according to the provisions of this
section, a student shall be entitled to hold the award for four aca-
demic 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 12 semester hours)
program of undergraduate study leading to the granting of a degree ;
and provided, further, that after his original appointment he con-
tinues to be a resident of the State. In any senatorial district where
a Senator represents more than one county the number of scholar-
ship units shall be divided as equally as possible among the qualify-
ing students in each of the counties comprising the senatorial district.

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(b) Any award to be made according to the provisions of this sub-
title shall be given only to an applicant who has met the following
conditions: (1) That he shall have passed, in the academic year pre-
ceding that for which the award is to be made, a competitive exami-
nation to be administered by the State Scholarship Board in accord-
ance with rules and regulations adopted and promulgated by the
Board, except that when an award is made to a student who is already
attending an institution of higher learning and who has completed
one academic year at said institution in good academic standing,
the requirement 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 political subdivision from which he seeks appointment, except
as otherwise provided in this section, (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,
and (5) that he shall have demonstrated, in accordance with the rules
and regulations of the State Scholarship Board, the requisite financial
need. Definite financial need shall be a prerequisite to receiving a
scholarship under the provisions of this section; but if the applicant
is adjudged to have definite financial need in the final judgment of a
member of the General Assembly from the county or senatorial or

legislative district in which the applicant resides, that fact shall be

accepted for the purposes of this section, and the State Scholarship
Board by regulation or otherwise may not negate the acceptance of
this judgment of financial need or impose upon it requirements of
time or procedure. No person shall be awarded or hold a scholarship
under the provisions of this section if he holds any other scholarship
awarded under the provisions of this article.