Section 3-105 - Composition of county board. - Maryland Statutes

§ 3-105. Composition of county board.
 

(a)  Applicability of subsections (b), (c), and (d).- Subsections (b), (c), and (d) of this section do not apply to a county if the number of members of the county board is regulated by other provisions of this title. 

(b)  School system with less than 50,000 students.- If a county school system has an enrollment of less than 50,000 students, the county board shall have five members, except that: 

(1) The Worcester County Board shall have the number of members provided in subsection (e) of this section; 

(2) Any county board that had more than five members on July 1, 1969, shall retain that number of members; and 

(3) The Wicomico County Board shall have the number of members provided in subsection (f) of this section. 

(c)  School system with between 50,000 and 100,000 students.- If a county school system has an enrollment of 50,000 students or more but less than 100,000 students, the county board shall have seven members. 

(d)  School system with over 100,000 students.- If a county school system has an enrollment of 100,000 students or more, the county board shall have nine members except as provided in § 3-901 of this title for Montgomery County. 

(e)  Worcester County.- The Worcester County Board consists of seven voting members and one nonvoting student member from each public high school in the county. 

(f)  Wicomico County.-  

(1) The Wicomico County Board consists of seven members. 

(2) The term of a member is 5 years. 
 

[An. Code 1957, art. 77, § 35; 1978, ch. 22, § 2; 1983, ch. 8; 1987, ch. 376; 1996, ch. 10, § 16; 2001, ch. 323, § 1; 2006, ch. 44, § 6.]