NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1973 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 1377

SENATE BILL 381

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND G.S. 116-143.1 TO GRANT IN-STATE TUITION RATES TO THE SPOUSE OF A NORTH CAROLINA RESIDENT.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 116-143.1 is hereby amended by adding a new subsection "(d)" which shall read as follows:

"(d)      Any spouse of a North Carolina resident shall be entitled to in-state tuition rates at the beginning of the next succeeding academic period.

(e)        Any person who by virtue of marriage to a North Carolina resident thereby acquires, by operation of law, a bona fide legal residence in North Carolina shall be eligible for in-state tuition rates at a time calculated in that one of the following ways which earlier confers such eligibility:

(1)        If the original North Carolina resident spouse had maintained such legal residence for a period of at least 12 months immediately prior to the marriage, the newly resident spouse shall first be eligible for the in-state rate at the next succeeding semester, term or quarter following the date of marriage;

(2)        If the original North Carolina resident spouse had not maintained such legal residence for a period of at least 12 months immediately prior to the marriage, the newly resident spouse shall first be eligible for the in-state rate at the next succeeding semester, quarter or term following expiration of 12 months of legal residence by the original resident spouse."

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

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 13th day of April, 1974.