NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1969 SESSION

CHAPTER 562

HOUSE BILL 359

AN ACT TO AMEND ARTICLE 1 OF CHAPTER 115A OF THE GENERAL STATUTES FOR THE PURPOSES OF DESCRIBING IN SOME PARTICULARITY THE PURPOSES OF COMMUNITY COLLEGES.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1.  Amend G.S. 115A-1, as the same appears in Article 1 of Chapter 115A of the General Statutes, by adding at the end of said section the following:

"The major purpose of each and every institution operating under the provisions of this Chapter, shall be and shall continue to be the offering of vocational and technical education and training, and of basic, high school level, academic education needed in order to profit from vocational and technical education, for students who are high school graduates or who are beyond the compulsory age limit of the public school system and who have left the public schools."

Sec. 2.  Amend G.S. 115A-2, as the same appears in Article 1 of Chapter 115A of the General Statutes, by striking out the word "may" wherever the same appears in said section and by inserting in lieu thereof the word "shall".

Sec. 3.  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 4.  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 22nd day of May, 1969.