MARVIN MANDEL, Governor                                2669

CHAPTER 790
(House Bill 1268)
AN ACT concerning

Montgomery Community College — Vacancies on the Board

of Trustees

FOR the purpose of providing for a Nominating Committee
to submit nominations to fill vacancies on the Board
of Trustees of Montgomery Community College, and
restricting to nominees of the Nominating Committee
appointments by the Governor to the Board.

BY adding to

Article 77A — Higher Education

Section 9C

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1969 Replacement Volume and 1973 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That new Section 9C be and it is hereby added
to Article 77A — Higher Education, of the Annotated Code
of Maryland (1969 Replacement Volume and 1973 Supplement)
to read as follows:

Article 77A — Higher Education
9C.

(A)    DUTIES; COMPOSITION.

IN MONTGOMERY COUNTY,, CANDIDATES FOR APPOINTMENT TO
THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF MONTGOMERY COMMUNITY COLLEGE
SHALL BE NOMINATED BY A NOMINATING COMMITTEE WHICH SHALL
BE COMPOSED OF FIVE MEMBERS, TWO OF WHOM SHALL BE
APPOINTED BY THE COUNTY COUNCIL OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY, TWO
OF WHOM SHALL BE APPOINTED BY THE COUNTY EXECUTIVE, AND
ONE OF WHOM SHALL BE APPOINTED BY THE MONTGOMERY
COMMUNITY COLLEGE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION.

(B)    QUALIFICATIONS; TERM; CHAIRMAN.

EACH MEMBER OF THE NOMINATING COMMITTEE SHALL BE A
RESIDENT AND REGISTERED VOTER OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY, AND
SHALL HAVE KNOWLEDGE OF AND INTEREST IN POST-SECONDARY
EDUCATION AND SHALL HAVE DEMONSTRATED AN ACTIVE INTEREST
IN CIVIC AFFAIRS. NO PERSON MAY BE A MEMBER OF THE
NOMINATING COMMITTEE WHO IS AN OFFICER OR EMPLOYEE OF
MONTGOMERY COMMUNITY COLLEGE OR OTHERWISE SUBJECT TO THE