GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

1997 SESSION

SESSION LAW 1997-527

HOUSE BILL 87

AN ACT TO EXEMPT THE CENTENNIAL CAMPUS OF NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY AT RALEIGH FROM THE UMSTEAD ACT, WHICH PROHIBITS STATE GOVERNMENT FROM ENGAGING IN THE SALE OF GOODS IN COMPETITION WITH CITIZENS OF THE STATE.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  G.S.  66-58(b)(8) reads as rewritten:

"(8)      The Greater University of North Carolina with regard to its utilities and other services now operated by it nor to the sale of articles produced incident to the operation of instructional departments, articles incident to educational research, articles of merchandise incident to classroom work, meals, books, or to articles of merchandise not exceeding twenty-five cents (25¢) in value when sold to members of the educational staff or staff auxiliary to education or to duly enrolled students or occasionally to immediate members of the families of members of the educational staff or of duly enrolled students nor to the sale of meals or merchandise to persons attending meetings or conventions as invited guests nor to the operation by the University of North Carolina of an inn or hotel and dining and other facilities usually connected with a hotel or inn, nor to the hospital and Medical School of the University of North Carolina, nor to the Coliseum of North Carolina State College, University at Raleigh, nor to the Centennial Campus of North Carolina State University at Raleigh, and the other schools and colleges for higher education maintained or supported by the State, nor to the comprehensive student health services or the comprehensive student infirmaries maintained by the constituent institutions of the University of North Carolina."

Section 2.  This act is effective when it becomes law.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 28th day of August, 1997.

s/   Dennis A. Wicker

President of the Senate

s/   Harold J. Brubaker

Speaker of the House of Representatives

s/   James B. Hunt, Jr.

Governor

Approved 11:37 a.m. this 17th day of September, 1997