Section 18-406 - Duration of award. - Maryland Statutes

§ 18-406. Duration of award.
 

(a)  Full-time students.- Except as otherwise provided in this section, each recipient of a senatorial scholarship may hold the scholarship for 4 undergraduate academic years and 4 graduate academic years if he: 

(1) Is a full-time student; 

(2) Continues to be a resident of this State; and 

(3) Continues to be a student at the institution and takes at least 12 semester hours of courses as an undergraduate or 9 semester hours of courses as a graduate student each semester leading to a degree. 

(b)  Part-time student.- A recipient of an undergraduate or graduate senatorial scholarship may hold the scholarship, appropriately prorated, for 8 academic years if he: 

(1) Is a part-time student; 

(2) Continues to be a resident of this State; and 

(3) Continues to be a student at the institution and takes at least 6 semester hours of courses each semester leading to a degree. 

(c)  Summer school.- Any recipient of a senatorial scholarship may use up to one-half of the yearly award for summer school. 

(d)  Terminal certificate student.- A recipient of a senatorial scholarship who is enrolled in a terminal certificate program as provided in § 18-402(a) of this subtitle may hold the scholarship for 2 years if he is a full-time student and otherwise meets the conditions of subsection (a) of this section, or may hold the scholarship for 4 years if he is a part-time student and otherwise meets the conditions of subsection (b) of this section. 

(e)  Time limit for completion of program.- Each recipient of a senatorial scholarship who is enrolled in a private postsecondary proprietary institution that is accredited by a national accrediting association approved by the United States Department of Education: 

(1) May hold the scholarship for the completion of 1 program if the student otherwise meets the conditions of paragraphs (1) and (2) of subsection (a) of this section; and 

(2) Shall complete the program within the length of time prescribed by the institution for the completion of the program. 
 

[An. Code 1957, art. 77A, § 35; 1978, ch. 22, § 2; ch. 278; 1979, ch. 465; 1980, ch. 122; 1986, ch. 650; 1987, ch. 382; 1988, ch. 246, § 2; 2006, ch. 44, § 6; 2007, ch. 339.]