100% Tobacco Free Colleges and North Carolina Law
PRIVATE COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES
Private colleges and universities have no restrictions on their ability to regulate tobacco use on campus. Therefore, they are able to pass comprehensive 100% tobacco-free college policies prohibiting tobacco use throughout the campus.
COMMUNITY COLLEGES
Community colleges are exempted from state law regulating the ability of certain facilities to adopt stringent tobacco use rules. Therefore, community colleges are able to pass comprehensive 100% tobacco-free college policies prohibiting tobacco use throughout the campus. (G.S. 130A-498, G.S. 115D-20.1)
UNC SYSTEM INSTITUTIONS
UNC system schools may prohibit smoking on their grounds. Grounds are defined to include the area located and controlled by state government within 100 linear feet of a building either:
- owned and occupied by the state,
- owned by the state but leased to a third party, or
- owned by a third party and leased to state government.
Also, all residential dorm rooms on UNC system schools must prohibit smoking by the beginning of the 2008-2009 academic school year and all other buildings must prohibit smoking as of January 1, 2008. (G.S. 143-596-597)
Medical facilities at UNC Chapel Hill and East Carolina University may prohibit smoking on their grounds and buildings. (G.S. 143-596-597)
Primary Source: Wall, Aimee: Regulation of Smoking: Update on Recent State Legislation, Health Law Bulletin No. 87 (Sept. 2007), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Government.