MCCD is one of six California community college districts that is considered "basic aid", or "self-supporting", and therefore receives most of its operating revenue from local property taxes rather than State apportionment (since local property tax revenues exceed apportionment figures).

The MCCD is governed by seven members of a board of trustees elected by-area to four-year terms.

On October 8, 1932, they filed in the office of the California Secretary of State a document titled "Articles of Incorporation of The Associated Students of Marin Junior College".

The filing of that document transformed The Associated Students of Marin Junior College into a corporation.

The filing of that amendment changed the corporation's name to "Associated Students College of Marin".