NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1977 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 605

HOUSE BILL 1071

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND G.S. 116-143 TO PROVIDE FREE TUITION FOR FULL-TIME UNC FACULTY MEMBERS.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 116-143, as the same appears in the 1975 Replacement Volume 3A, is amended in the last paragraph thereof to read as follows:

"Notwithstanding the above provision relating to the abolition of free tuition, the Board of Governors of The University of North Carolina may, in its discretion, provide regulations under which a full-time faculty member of the rank of full-time instructor or above, and any full-time staff member of The University of North Carolina may during the period of normal employment enroll for not more than one course per semester in The University of North Carolina free of charge for tuition, provided such enrollment does not interfere with normal employment obligations and further provided that such enrollments are not counted for the purpose of receiving General Fund Appropriations."

Sec. 2.  This act shall become effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 17th day of June, 1977.