§ 6302. Authorization to establish community colleges. 1. Any local\nsponsor, other than a community college region, acting through its local\nlegislative body or board, or other appropriate governing agency, which\nin the case of the city of New York acting as a local sponsor shall be\nthe mayor of that city, may by local law, resolution, order or\nordinance, and pursuant to the master plan, standards and regulations\nprescribed by the state university trustees and with the approval of\nsaid trustees:\n a. Establish a community college.\n b. Elect to participate in and pay an appropriate share of the\nexpenses involved in the community college program of any other local\nsponsor consenting to such arrangement.\n c. Combine with one or more other local sponsors for the joint\nestablishment and operation of a community college.\n 2. Pursuant to section sixty-three hundred ten of this article, any\neligible county, city or school district acting through its local\nlegislative body or board, may by local law or resolution, and pursuant\nto the master plan, standards and regulations prescribed by the state\nuniversity trustees, and with the approval of said trustees, combine\nwith one or more contiguous counties, cities or school districts, or any\ncombination thereof, to constitute a community college region for the\npurpose of operating, as local sponsor, an existing community college\nwhich is currently sponsored by a city or school district other than a\nschool district located in a city with a population of one million or\nmore.\n 3. In the city of New York, the board of education, with the approval\nof the state university trustees, may act as a local sponsor in the\nestablishment and operation, as a community college, of a post secondary\ntechnical vocational training institution which is partly supported by\nsuch board of education and partly supported by an educational\nfoundation for an industry chartered by the board of regents. In\naddition to the community college programs and curricula authorized by\nthis article, the institution may offer such baccalaureate, masters\ndegree programs and curricula in support of its mission, in accordance\nwith standards and regulations prescribed by the state university\ntrustees, as may be authorized pursuant to the provisions of the master\nplan. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the institution shall\nbe financed and administered in the manner provided for community\ncolleges.\n 4. Community colleges so established and operated shall be eligible to\nreceive financial assistance from the state as hereinafter provided,\nwhich shall be paid to the local sponsor or sponsors, provided, however,\nthat in the case of any local sponsor which shall have assigned such\nfinancial assistance to the dormitory authority, such payment shall be\nmade to the commissioner of taxation and finance for deposit in the\ncommunity college tuition and instructional income fund.\n 5. Whenever a plan for a community college, other than a plan for\nparticipation in a community college region, shall have been formulated\nby a county board of supervisors and approved as provided in this\nsection, the board of supervisors may submit the question of the\nestablishment of the community college contemplated by such plan to a\nreferendum at any general election at which all the voters of the county\nmay vote. The form of the proposition shall be determined by the board\nof supervisors and shall include an estimate of the county's share of\nthe initial capital cost and an estimate of the county's share of the\nannual cost of maintenance and operation. If the majority of the voters\nvoting on such proposition shall approve the establishment of the\ncommunity college, such college shall be deemed established and the\nboard of supervisors shall proceed forthwith to exercise the powers and\nauthority conferred upon it in this article.\n 6. a. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, community colleg
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