§ 116-1 Purpose
§ 116-2 Definitions
§ 116-3 Incorporation and corporate powers
§ 116-3.3 Mediation matters
§ 116-4 Constituent institutions of the University of North Carolina
§ 116-5 Initial membership of Board of Governors
§ 116-6 Election and terms of members of Board of Governors
§ 116-6.1 Student member of the Board of Governors
§ 116-7 General provisions concerning members of the Board of Governors
§ 116-8 Chairman, vice-chairman and secretary
§ 116-9 Meetings of Board of Governors
§ 116-10 Committees
§ 116-11 Powers and duties generally
§ 116-11.2 Duties regarding programs in education administration
§ 116-11.3 UNC admissions policy for early college graduates
§ 116-12 Property and obligations
§ 116-13 Powers of Board regarding property and services subject to general law
§ 116-13.1 Capital facilities; reports
§ 116-13.2 Report on University Fiscal Liabilities
§ 116-14 President and staff
§ 116-15 Licensing of certain nonpublic post-secondary educational institutions
§ 116-16 Tax exemption
§ 116-17 Purchase of annuity or retirement income contracts for faculty members, officers and employees
§ 116-17.1 Dependent care assistance program
§ 116-17.2 Flexible Compensation Plan
§ 116-18 Information Center established
§ 116-29.1 University Cancer Research Fund
§ 116-30.1 Special responsibility constituent institutions
§ 116-30.2 Appropriations to special responsibility constituent institutions
§ 116-30.3 Reversions
§ 116-30.3A Availability of excess receipts
§ 116-30.3B Energy conservation savings
§ 116-30.4 Position management
§ 116-30.5 Impact on education
§ 116-30.8 Special responsibility constituent institutions: annual audit by State Auditor
§ 116-30.20 Establishment of private, nonprofit corporations
§ 116-31 Membership of the boards of trustees
§ 116-31.10 Powers of Board regarding certain purchasing contracts
§ 116-31.11 Powers of Board regarding certain fee negotiations, contracts, and capital improvements
§ 116-31.12 Acquisition and disposition of real property by lease
§ 116-32 Officers and meetings of the boards of trustees
§ 116-33 Powers and duties of the boards of trustees
§ 116-33.1 Board of trustees to permit recruiter access
§ 116-33.2 Cooperative Extension Service employees
§ 116-34 Duties of chancellor of institution
§ 116-35 Electric power plants, campus school, etc
§ 116-36 Endowment fund
§ 116-36.1 Regulation of institutional trust funds
§ 116-36.2 Regulation of special funds of individual institutions
§ 116-36.4 Vending facilities
§ 116-36.5 Centennial Campus trust fund; Horace Williams Campus trust fund; Millennial Campuses’ trust funds
§ 116-36.6 East Carolina University School of Medicine; Medicare receipts
§ 116-36.7 Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine; profit sharing with State
§ 116-37 University of North Carolina Health Care System
§ 116-37.1 Center for public media
§ 116-37.2 Regulation of University of North Carolina Hospitals at Chapel Hill Funds
§ 116-37.3 Personnel of Dental School Clinical Operations at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
§ 116-38 Child development research and demonstration center
§ 116-39 Agricultural research stations
§ 116-40 Board to accept gifts and congressional donations
§ 116-40.1 Land scrip fund
§ 116-40.2 Authorization to purchase insurance in connection with construction and operation of nuclear reactors
§ 116-40.3 Participation in sixth-year program of graduate instruction for superintendents, assistant superintendents, and principals of public schools
§ 116-40.4 School of medicine authorized at East Carolina University; meeting requirements of accrediting agencies
§ 116-40.5 Campus law enforcement agencies
§ 116-40.6 Certain Personnel of East Carolina University
§ 116-40.7 Internal auditors
§ 116-40.8 University of North Carolina at Pembroke designated as North Carolina’s Historically American Indian University
§ 116-40.11 Disciplinary proceedings; right to counsel for students and organizations
§ 116-40.12 Student organizations; rights and recognition
§ 116-40.13 Authorization to secure liability insurance for alcohol sales
§ 116-40.20 Legislative findings
§ 116-40.21 Board of governors may authorize management flexibility
§ 116-40.22 Management flexibility
§ 116-40.23 Reporting requirement; effective date of reported policies, procedures, and rules
§ 116-41.1 Definitions
§ 116-41.2 Powers of Board of Governors generally
§ 116-41.3 University authorized to pay service charges; payments deemed revenues
§ 116-41.4 Bonds authorized; amount limited; form, execution and sale; terms and conditions; use of proceeds; additional bonds; interim receipts or temporary bonds; replacement of lost, etc., bonds; approval or consent for issuance; bonds not debt of State; bond an
§ 116-41.5 Contents of resolution authorizing issuance; powers liberally construed; deposit and use of revenues; rights and remedies of bondholders; service charges; insurance of projects; depositaries
§ 116-41.6 Pledge of revenues; lien
§ 116-41.7 Proceeds of bonds, revenues, etc., deemed trust funds
§ 116-41.8 Rights and remedies of bondholders
§ 116-41.9 Refunding revenue bonds
§ 116-41.10 Exemption from taxation
§ 116-41.11 Executive committee may be authorized to exercise powers and functions of Board
§ 116-41.12 Part provides supplemental and additional powers; compliance with other laws not required
§ 116-41.13 Distinguished Professors Endowment Trust Fund; purpose
§ 116-41.13A Distinguished Professors Endowment Trust Fund; definitions
§ 116-41.14 Distinguished Professors Endowment Trust Fund; establishment; maintenance
§ 116-41.15 Distinguished Professors Endowment Trust Fund; allocation; administration
§ 116-41.16 Distinguished Professors Endowment Trust Fund; contribution commitments
§ 116-41.17 Distinguished Professors Endowment Trust Fund; establishment of chairs
§ 116-41.18 Distinguished Professors Endowment Trust Fund; selection of Distinguished Professors
§ 116-41.19 Distinguished Professors Endowment Trust Fund; promulgation of rules
§ 116-41.30 Establishment of Future Teachers of North Carolina
§ 116-41.31 Oversight of Future Teachers of North Carolina
§ 116-43 Escheat receipts prior to July 1, 1971
§ 116-43.1 Institute for Transportation Research and Education
§ 116-43.10 Academic Common Market program
§ 116-43.15 Use of college or university facilities by public school students pursuant to cooperative programs
§ 116-43.16 Small business counseling information
§ 116-43.17 Confidentiality of research data, records, and information of a proprietary nature
§ 116-43.20 Operation of 4-H camps
§ 116-43.30 Advanced Placement courses for secondary school students
§ 116-44.3 Definitions
§ 116-44.4 Regulation of traffic and parking and registration of motor vehicles
§ 116-44.5 Special provisions applicable to identified constituent institutions of the University of North Carolina
§ 116-44.6 Definitions
§ 116-44.7 Exemption from certain fees and charges
§ 116-44.8 Fire Safety Loan Fund

Terms Used In North Carolina General Statutes > Chapter 116 > Article 1 - The University of North Carolina

  • Adjournment sine die: The end of a legislative session "without day." These adjournments are used to indicate the final adjournment of an annual or the two-year session of legislature.
  • Allegation: something that someone says happened.
  • Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
  • Annuity: A periodic (usually annual) payment of a fixed sum of money for either the life of the recipient or for a fixed number of years. A series of payments under a contract from an insurance company, a trust company, or an individual. Annuity payments are made at regular intervals over a period of more than one full year.
  • Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
  • Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
  • Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
  • Bankruptcy: Refers to statutes and judicial proceedings involving persons or businesses that cannot pay their debts and seek the assistance of the court in getting a fresh start. Under the protection of the bankruptcy court, debtors may discharge their debts, perhaps by paying a portion of each debt. Bankruptcy judges preside over these proceedings.
  • Board: means the Board of Governors of the University of North Carolina. See North Carolina General Statutes 116-2
  • Board of trustees: means the board of trustees of a constituent institution. See North Carolina General Statutes 116-2
  • Chancellor: means the chancellor of a constituent institution. See North Carolina General Statutes 116-2
  • Continuance: Putting off of a hearing ot trial until a later time.
  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
  • Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
  • Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
  • Devise: To gift property by will.
  • Discovery: Lawyers' examination, before trial, of facts and documents in possession of the opponents to help the lawyers prepare for trial.
  • Dismissal: The dropping of a case by the judge without further consideration or hearing. Source:
  • Donor: The person who makes a gift.
  • Entitlement: A Federal program or provision of law that requires payments to any person or unit of government that meets the eligibility criteria established by law. Entitlements constitute a binding obligation on the part of the Federal Government, and eligible recipients have legal recourse if the obligation is not fulfilled. Social Security and veterans' compensation and pensions are examples of entitlement programs.
  • Equitable: Pertaining to civil suits in "equity" rather than in "law." In English legal history, the courts of "law" could order the payment of damages and could afford no other remedy. See damages. A separate court of "equity" could order someone to do something or to cease to do something. See, e.g., injunction. In American jurisprudence, the federal courts have both legal and equitable power, but the distinction is still an important one. For example, a trial by jury is normally available in "law" cases but not in "equity" cases. Source: U.S. Courts
  • Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
  • Ex officio: Literally, by virtue of one's office.
  • Fair market value: The price at which an asset would change hands in a transaction between a willing, informed buyer and a willing, informed seller.
  • Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
  • 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
  • Foreclosure: A legal process in which property that is collateral or security for a loan may be sold to help repay the loan when the loan is in default. Source: OCC
  • Forgery: The fraudulent signing or alteration of another's name to an instrument such as a deed, mortgage, or check. The intent of the forgery is to deceive or defraud. Source: OCC
  • Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
  • Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
  • Grantor: The person who establishes a trust and places property into it.
  • Guarantor: A party who agrees to be responsible for the payment of another party's debts should that party default. Source: OCC
  • Guardian: A person legally empowered and charged with the duty of taking care of and managing the property of another person who because of age, intellect, or health, is incapable of managing his (her) own affairs.
  • in writing: may be construed to include printing, engraving, lithographing, and any other mode of representing words and letters: Provided, that in all cases where a written signature is required by law, the same shall be in a proper handwriting, or in a proper mark. See North Carolina General Statutes 12-3
  • Indemnification: In general, a collateral contract or assurance under which one person agrees to secure another person against either anticipated financial losses or potential adverse legal consequences. Source: FDIC
  • institution: means one of the 16 public institutions of higher education, to wit, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina State University at Raleigh, the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, the University of North Carolina at Asheville, the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, Appalachian State University, East Carolina University, Elizabeth City State University, Fayetteville State University, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, North Carolina Central University, North Carolina School of the Arts, redesignated effective August 1, 2008, as the "University of North Carolina School of the Arts" Pembroke State University, redesignated effective July 1, 1996, as the "University of North Carolina at Pembroke" Western Carolina University, and Winston-Salem State University, and the constituent high school, the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics. See North Carolina General Statutes 116-2
  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
  • Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). Source: OCC
  • Legislative session: That part of a chamber's daily session in which it considers legislative business (bills, resolutions, and actions related thereto).
  • Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
  • Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
  • month: shall be construed to mean a calendar month, unless otherwise expressed; and the word "year" a calendar year, unless otherwise expressed; and the word "year" alone shall be equivalent to the expression "year of our Lord. See North Carolina General Statutes 12-3
  • Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
  • Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
  • Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
  • Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
  • Personal property: All property that is not real property.
  • personal property: shall include moneys, goods, chattels, choses in action and evidences of debt, including all things capable of ownership, not descendable to heirs at law. See North Carolina General Statutes 12-3
  • President: means the President of the University of North Carolina. See North Carolina General Statutes 116-2
  • President pro tempore: A constitutionally recognized officer of the Senate who presides over the chamber in the absence of the Vice President. The President Pro Tempore (or, "president for a time") is elected by the Senate and is, by custom, the Senator of the majority party with the longest record of continuous service.
  • Probable cause: A reasonable ground for belief that the offender violated a specific law.
  • property: shall include all property, both real and personal. See North Carolina General Statutes 12-3
  • Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
  • Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
  • Remainder: An interest in property that takes effect in the future at a specified time or after the occurrence of some event, such as the death of a life tenant.
  • seal: shall be construed to include an impression of such official seal, made upon the paper alone, as well as an impression made by means of a wafer or of wax affixed thereto. See North Carolina General Statutes 12-3
  • Settlement: Parties to a lawsuit resolve their difference without having a trial. Settlements often involve the payment of compensation by one party in satisfaction of the other party's claims.
  • 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
  • Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
  • Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.
  • Testify: Answer questions in court.
  • Tort: A civil wrong or breach of a duty to another person, as outlined by law. A very common tort is negligent operation of a motor vehicle that results in property damage and personal injury in an automobile accident.
  • Transcript: A written, word-for-word record of what was said, either in a proceeding such as a trial or during some other conversation, as in a transcript of a hearing or oral deposition.
  • Trust account: A general term that covers all types of accounts in a trust department, such as estates, guardianships, and agencies. Source: OCC
  • Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
  • United States: shall be construed to include the said district and territories and all dependencies. See North Carolina General Statutes 12-3