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<section article="ged" article_name="Education" number="16-202" title_number="16" title_name="Community Colleges" subtitle_number="2" subtitle_name="Regional Community Colleges">
  <level label="a">
    <level label="1">
      <text>Two or more counties may agree to establish a region and to support a regional community college.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The Commission may authorize a regional community college for the region.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <level label="1">
      <text>In this subsection, “county board of community college trustees” means:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>The board of community college trustees, if any; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>The county board of education in any county that does not have a board of community college trustees.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Except as otherwise provided in this subsection, the county boards of community college trustees for each county in a region constitute the board of regional community college trustees.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>If the counties in a region have different numbers of members on their county board of community college trustees, each county board of community college trustees shall elect, to serve as regional community college trustees, the number of its members equal to the number of members on the smallest board of community college trustees in the region.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>A board of regional community college trustees:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>May not have more than 12 members; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Shall have an equal number of members from each county in the region.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="5">
      <text>If requested to do so by a county government, the Governor shall appoint the regional community college trustees from that county.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="6">
      <text>The county superintendent of each county in the region is, ex officio, a member of the board of regional community college trustees, and shall attend meetings but may not vote.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="7">
      <text>Each board of regional community college trustees shall:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>Elect one of its members as its chair;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Designate the president of the regional community college as its secretary–treasurer; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>Determine the time and place of its meetings and may adopt rules for the conduct of its meetings.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>Any board of regional community college trustees established under subsection (b) of this section may request the Governor to appoint a new board.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <level label="1">
      <text>After a request is made, the Governor, with the advice and consent of the Senate, shall appoint seven individuals to the new board.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The initial members shall be appointed as provided in § 16-101 of this title.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
