GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

1987 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 763

HOUSE BILL 723

 

AN ACT TO CLARIFY EXEMPTION OF DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTION OFFICERS FROM TUITION AND FEES FOR JOB-RELATED TRAINING COURSES TAUGHT BY THE DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNITY COLLEGES.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 115D-5(b)reads as rewritten:

"(b)      In order to make instruction as accessible as possible to all citizens, the teaching of curricular courses and of noncurricular extension courses at convenient locations away from institution campuses as well as on campuses is authorized and shall be encouraged. A pro rata portion of the established regular tuition rate charged a full-time student shall be charged a part-time student taking any curriculum course. In lieu of any tuition charge, the State Board of Community Colleges shall establish a uniform registration fee, or a schedule of uniform registration fees, to be charged students enrolling in extension courses for which instruction is financed primarily from State funds; provided, however, that the State Board of Community Colleges may provide by general and uniform regulations for waiver of tuition and registration fees for persons not enrolled in elementary or secondary schools taking courses leading to a high school diploma or equivalent certificate, for training courses for volunteer firemen, local fire department personnel, volunteer rescue and lifesaving department personnel, local rescue and lifesaving department personnel, local law-enforcement officers, patients in State alcoholic rehabilitation centers, all full-time custodial employees of the Department of Correction  and employees of the Department's Division of Adult Probation and Parole required to be certified pursuant to Chapter 17C of the General Statutes and the rules of the Criminal Justice and Training Standards Commission, trainees enrolled in courses conducted under the New and Expanding Industry Program, clients of sheltered workshops, clients of adult developmental activity programs, students in Human Resources Development Programs, juveniles of any age committed to the Division of Youth Services of the Department of Human Resources by a court of competent jurisdiction, and prison inmates. Provided further, tuition shall be waived for senior citizens attending institutions operating pursuant to this Chapter as set forth in Chapter 115B of the General Statutes, Tuition Waiver for Senior Citizens."

Sec. 2.  This act shall become effective September 1, 1987; provided, however, this act shall become effective only if the General Assembly transfers in the Current Operations Appropriations Act funds in the amount of thirteen thousand three hundred thirty-five dollars ($13,335) for each year of the 1987-89 fiscal biennium from the budget of the Department of Correction to the budget of the Department of Community Colleges to carry out the provisions of this act.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 10th day of August, 1987.