NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1963 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 1207

HOUSE BILL 1395

 

 

AN ACT TO REGULATE VISITING SPEAKERS AT STATE SUPPORTED COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1.  No college or university, which receives any State funds in support thereof, shall permit any person to use the facilities of such college or university for speaking purposes, who:

(A)       Is a known member of the Communist Party;

(B)       Is known to advocate the overthrow of the Constitution of the United States or the State of North Carolina;

(C)       Has pleaded the Fifth Amendment of the Constitution of the United States in refusing to answer any question, with respect to Communist or subversive connections, or activities, before any duly constituted legislative committee, any judicial tribunal, or any executive or administrative board of the United States or any state.

Sec. 2.  This Act shall be enforced by the Board of Trustees, or other governing authority, of such college or university, or by such administrative personnel as may be appointed therefor by the Board of Trustees or other governing authority of such college or university.

Sec. 3.  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 4.  This Act shall become effective upon its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 26th day of June, 1963.