NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY
1969 SESSION
CHAPTER 1019
HOUSE BILL 985
AN ACT TO REVOKE ALL SCHOLARSHIPS AND GRANTS OF FUNDS FOR THE ASSISTANCE OF STUDENTS WHO ARE CONVICTED, ENTER A PLEA OF GUILTY OR NOLO CONTENDERE TO A CHARGE OF RIOT, INCITING A RIOT, TRESPASS OR THE SEIZURE OF THE BUILDINGS OR FACILITIES ON THE CAMPUSES OF STATE-SUPPORTED COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES.
The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 1. Any student regularly registered and enrolled as an undergraduate, graduate, or professional student in a State-supported college, university or community college who shall be convicted, enter a plea of guilty or nolo contendere upon an indictment or charge for engaging in a riot, inciting a riot, unlawful demonstration or assembly, seizing or occupying a building or facility, sitting down in buildings they have seized, or lying down in entrances to buildings or any facilities, or on the campus of any college, university, or community college, or any student, whether an undergraduate, graduate or professional student who shall forfeit an appearance bond on an indictment or charge of any of the above named offenses, shall have revoked and withdrawn from his benefit all state supported scholarships or any State funds granted to him for educational assistance. It shall be the duty of all persons or officials having charge of and authority over the granting of State supported scholarships or any other form of financial assistance to immediately revoke and withdraw same in the event and upon the happening of any of the conditions or matters above enumerated; provided, however, that in subsequent academic terms any such student shall be eligible to be considered for and to be granted financial assistance from State funds.
Sec. 2. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed.
Sec. 3. This Act shall be in full force and effect from and after its ratification.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 23rd day of June, 1969.