(a)        Local boards of education may charge tuition to the following persons:

(1)        Persons of school age who are not domiciliaries of the State.

(2)        Persons of school age who are domiciliaries of the State but who do not reside within the school administrative unit.

(3)        Persons of school age who reside on a military installation or reservation located within the State and who are not domiciliaries of the State. Provided, however, that no person of school age residing on a military installation or reservation located within the State and who attends the public schools within the State may be charged tuition if federal funds designed to compensate for the impact on public schools of military dependent persons of school age are funded by the federal government at not less than fifty percent (50%) of the total per capita cost of education in the State, exclusive of capital outlay and debt service, for elementary or secondary pupils, as the case may be, of such school administrative unit.

(4)        Persons who are 21 years of age or older before the beginning of the school year in which they wish to enroll.

(b)        The tuition charge for a student shall not exceed the amount of per pupil local funding.

(c)        The tuition required in this section shall be determined by local boards of education each August 1 prior to the beginning of a new school year. ?(1981, c. 567, ss. 2-4; 1982, Ex. Sess., c. 2, ss. 1, 2; 1983 (Reg. Sess., 1984), c. 1034, s. 22; 1985, c. 780, s. 2; 2018-5, s. 7.18(c).)

Terms Used In North Carolina General Statutes 115C-366.1

  • Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
  • following: when used by way of reference to any section of a statute, shall be construed to mean the section next preceding or next following that in which such reference is made; unless when some other section is expressly designated in such reference. See North Carolina General Statutes 12-3
  • state: when applied to the different parts of the United States, shall be construed to extend to and include the District of Columbia and the several territories, so called; and the words "United States" shall be construed to include the said district and territories and all dependencies. See North Carolina General Statutes 12-3