NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1981 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 471

HOUSE BILL 844

 

 

AN ACT TO PERMIT CERTAIN INDIVIDUALS AS ADULTS TO PRESERVE LEGAL RESIDENCE CONFERRED ON THEM AS MINORS IN THE CONTEXT OF RESIDENTIARY STATUS FOR TUITION PURPOSES BY REASON OF G.S. 116-143.1(j).

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1. G.S. 116-143.1(j) is hereby amended by adding at the end thereof a new paragraph to read as follows:

"Any person who immediately prior to his or her eighteenth birthday would have been deemed under this subsection a North Carolina legal resident but who achieves majority before enrolling at an institution of higher education shall not lose the benefit of this subsection if that person:

(1)        upon achieving majority, acts, to the extent that the person's degree of actual emancipation permits, in a manner consistent with bona fide legal residence in North Carolina; and

(2)        begins enrollment at an institution of higher education not later than the fall academic term next following completion of education prerequisite to admission at such institution."

Sec. 2. This act is effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 28th day of May, 1981.