§ 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 and § 3-1002 of this title for Prince George's 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.

HISTORY: 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; 2013, ch. 147.