Policies and Procedures - Travel
Policy 11 - Internal Conferences and Informal Meetings with Guests
of Department Heads
Internal Conferences
Internal Conferences are those that involve participation of employees within
that particular department, institution or agency only.
Criteria for Authorized Internal Conferences
- The conference is planned in detail in advance, with a formal agenda or
curriculum.
- There is a written invitation to participants, setting forth the calender
of events, the social activities, if any, and the detailed schedule of costs.
- No excess travel subsistence may be granted for internal departmental meetings,
conferences, seminars, etc., and such meetings must be held in state facilities
when available.
- No excess registration fee may be granted when a state employee is attending
an internal state sponsored conference, seminar, etc.
- Sponsoring departments may provide refreshments for "breaks" provided
there are twenty (20) or more participants and costs do not exceed four dollars
($4.00) per participant per day.
Informal Meetings with Guests of Department Heads
State employees who are elected by a vote of the people or appointed by the governor,
the president of the University of North Carolina, the chancellors of the constituent
institutions of the University, and the president of the Community College System
may be reimbursed from state funds for actual costs of meals, themselves and
individuals who are not state employees who are their guests, when accompanying
them in the course of conducting state business. Department heads may be authorized
to pay honorarium to non-state
employees for expenses in lieu of a per diem.