(A) Prior to allowing any university employee or student access to the network, the board must adopt guidelines and procedures which, at a minimum, ensure that:

(1) access to the network is limited to specific university employees and specific university students who have direct involvement in one or more formal documented partnerships that meet the requirements of Section 59-151-110(C);

(2) these university employees and university students cease to have access to the network once they are no longer directly involved in such a formal documented partnership; and

(3) the access to the network does not compete with the commercial communications or information offerings of private sector participants.

(B) Prior to allowing any private organization or entity access to the network, the board must adopt guidelines and procedures which, at a minimum, ensure that:

(1) access to the network is limited to specified employees of these private organizations or entities who have direct involvement in one or more formal documented partnerships that meet the requirements of Section 59-151-110(C);

(2) these employees cease to have access to the network once they are no longer directly involved in such a formal documented partnership;

(3) the access to the network does not compete with the commercial communications or information offerings of private sector participants; and

(4) any South Carolina commercial entity has a separate commodity internet connection for its routine operations.

(C) For purposes of this section, occasional and incidental use of the network by persons appropriately granted such access to the network for purposes that are not directly related to the missions of the participating institutions is not considered as competing with the commercial communications or information offerings of private sector participants.

HISTORY: 2008 Act No. 330, Section 1, eff upon approval (became law without the Governor's signature on June 17, 2008).

Editor's Note

2012 Act No. 284, Section 11, provides as follows:

"The provisions of this act do not expand, diminish, or otherwise affect the provisions of Chapter 151, Title 59 regarding the South Carolina LightRail Consortium"