MARVIN MANDEL, Governor

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met the following conditions: (1) That he shall have
[passed,] TAKEN 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 respective 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 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 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 Scholarship 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 prerequisite 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 the awarding 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.
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 12
semester hours) program or a part time program (minimum 6
semester hours) of undergraduate study leading to the
granting of a degree provided further that for part—time
students the scholarship award is appropriately prorated,
and may be for a period not to exceed twice the number of
years for which a full—time student is eligible; and
provided, further, that after his original appointment he
continues to be a resident of the State. In any
senatorial district where a Senator represents more than