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LAWS OF MARYLAND

Ch. 18

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That the Laws of Maryland read as follows:

Article 25 - County Commissioners

232.

(a)  The Harford [County] Educational Foundation,
hereinafter called the foundation, is hereby created and
continued a body corporate and politic. The foundation shall
consist of [nine] 11 directors appointed by the method and for
terms as hereinafter provided. The directors shall serve without
compensation.

(b)  The [county executive of Harford County or his
designee] CHAIRPERSON OF THE HARFORD COMMUNITY COLLEGE BOARD OF
TRUSTEES, the president of Harford Community College and the
[president] DESIGNEE of the Board of Education of Harford County
shall each be a member of the foundation ex officio. The [six] 8
remaining [initial] directors [shall be appointed by the county
executive, two directors to be appointed for three years, two for
two years and two for one year. Directors shall be chosen from
among residents of the county. As the terms of the initial
appointees expire or as vacancies occur, their successors] shall
be elected by a majority vote of the foundation for terms of
three years or the remainder thereof; and thereafter, these
positions shall be so filled. [However, the directors of -the
Harford [County] Educational Foundation as of July 1, 1974, shall
remain members of the foundation for the remainder of their
respective terms, and the initial or successive appointments
provided for herein shall be made only upon the expiration or
vacancy of such terms occurring for any reason.] AT THE END OF A
TERM, A DIRECTOR CONTINUES TO SERVE UNTIL A SUCCESSOR IS
APPOINTED AND QUALIFIES. EACH DIRECTOR SHALL BE A RESIDENT OF
HARFORD COUNTY. THE TERMS OF 6 OF THE ELECTED DIRECTORS SERVING
ON JULY 1, 1984 ARE STAGGERED AS IN EFFECT ON JUNE 1, 1984. THE
BOARD SHALL ELECT 2 ADDITIONAL DIRECTORS FOR TERMS OF 3 YEARS TO
BEGIN JULY 1, 1984.

(d) The purpose of the Harford [County] Educational
Foundation is declared to be to further educational opportunities
afforded by established and recognized institutions of learning,
particularly the Harford Community College, by providing
financial resources and services related thereto, for facilities
as well as scholarships, fellowships, loans, grants and other
forms of assistance; and to provide an instrumentality or
depository for the receipt of funds by grant, gift, devise or
bequest for educational uses, particularly those forms of
philanthropy especially intended for education purposes.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall
take effect July 1, 1984.

Approved April 10, 1984.