NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1969 SESSION

CHAPTER 756

HOUSE BILL 230

AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR REFUNDS OF CHARGES .ANT) FEES COLLECTED FROM STUDENTS OR THEIR PARENTS LN THE PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM WHEN THE PUPILS ARE TRANSFERRED OR FOR OTHER VALID REASONS LEAVE THE PUBLIC SCHOOL IN WHICH THEY ARE ENROLLED.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1.  As used in this Act: "Month" shall mean twenty school days; "First semester" shall mean the first ninety teaching days of the one hundred eighty days of the school year; "Second semester" shall mean the last ninety days of the one hundred eighty days constituting the school year; "Term" for the purposes of this Act shall have the same meaning as that of first semester or second semester.

Sec. 2.  In all cases where pupils of an administrative unit of the public school system transfer to some other public school in another administrative unit or such pupils are compelled to leave the school in which they are enrolled because of some serious or permanent illness, or for any other good and valid reason, then such pupils or their parents shall be entitled to a refund of the fees and charges paid by them as follows:

(1)        If the transfer or departure of the pupil or pupils from the school in which they are enrolled takes place within one month after enrollment, then all such fees and charges shall be refunded in full;

(2)        If the transfer or leaving the school on the part of said pupil or pupils takes place after the first month and before the middle of the first semester, then one-half of the fees for the first semester shall be refunded, and all fees and charges for the second semester shall be refunded.

(3)        If the pupil or pupils transfer or leave the school after the middle of the first semester, then no first semester fees or charges shall be refunded.

(4)        If the fees and charges on the part of such pupil or pupils have been paid for a year and such pupil or pupils transfer or leave the school at the end of the first semester or within the first month of the second semester, then all second semester fees and charges shall be refunded in full;

(5)        If the fees and charges herein described and set forth have been paid for one year, and the pupil or pupils transfer or leave the school before the middle of the second semester, then one-half of the second semester fees shall be refunded;

(6)        The words "fees" and "charges" as used in this Act shall not include any fees or charges paid for insurance or fees charged for expendable materials.

(7)        If the pupil or pupils transfer or leave the school after the middle of the second semester, then no fees shall be refunded.

(8)        If the amount of total refund as determined by this Section shall be less than one dollar ($1.00), no refund shall be paid.

Sec. 3.  In all cases where semesters are designated as terms, the word "term" shall have the meaning as above set forth, and the refund shall be on the same basis as the semester refunds set forth in Section 2 of this Act.

Sec. 4.  The principal shall be responsible for refunding fees and charges at the place of the collection of the fees and charges by check made payable to the parent or guardian of pupil or pupils leaving the school as noted in Sec. 2 of this Act.

Sec. 5.  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 6.  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 9th day of June, 1969.