South Carolina § 1-30-35 Department of Disabilities and Special Needs.

South Carolina Statutes

§ 1-30-35 — Department of Disabilities and Special Needs.

South Carolina § 1-30-35

Title 1ADMINISTRATION OF THE GOVERNMENT

Ch. 30DEPARTMENTS OF STATE GOVERNMENT

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Bluebook

S.C. Code Ann. § 1-30-35 (2026).

Text

Effective on July 1, 1993, the following agencies, boards, and commissions, including all of the allied, advisory, affiliated, or related entities as well as the employees, funds, property and all contractual rights and obligations associated with any such agency, except for those subdivisions specifically included under another department, are hereby transferred to and incorporated in and shall be administered as part of the Department of Disabilities and Special Needs to be initially divided into divisions for Intellectual Disability, Head and Spinal Cord Injury, and Autism; provided, however, that the board of the former Department of Mental Retardation as constituted on June 30, 1993, and thereafter, under the provisions of Section 44-19-10, et seq., shall be the governing authority fo

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Effective on July 1, 1993, the following agencies, boards, and commissions, including all of the allied, advisory, affiliated, or related entities as well as the employees, funds, property and all contractual rights and obligations associated with any such agency, except for those subdivisions specifically included under another department, are hereby transferred to and incorporated in and shall be administered as part of the Department of Disabilities and Special Needs to be initially divided into divisions for Intellectual Disability, Head and Spinal Cord Injury, and Autism; provided, however, that the board of the former Department of Mental Retardation as constituted on June 30, 1993, and thereafter, under the provisions of Section 44-19-10, et seq., shall be the governing authority for the department. (A) Department of Mental Health Autism programs, formerly provided for at Section 44-9-10, et seq.; (B) Head and Spinal Cord Injury Information System, formerly provided for at Section 44-38-10, et seq.; (C) Department of Mental Retardation, formerly provided for at Section 44-19-10, et seq.

Legislative History

HISTORY: 1993 Act No. 181, SECTION 1. Code Commissioner's Note 2011 Act No. 47, SECTION 14(B), provided for the substitution of "intellectual disability" for "mental retardation" in the 1976 Code of Laws. At the Code Commissioner's discretion, the substitution was not made for the formal reference to the Mental Retardation division and the Department of Mental Retardation in this section.