S.C. Code § 44-1-20

Current through 2024 Act No. 225.

Section 44-1-20 - Department of Public Health

There is created the South Carolina Department of Public Health.

S.C. Code § 44-1-20

Amended by 2023 S.C. Acts, Act No. 60 (SB 399),s 3, eff. 7/1/2024.

Amended by 2012 S.C. Acts, Act No. 222 (SB 1127), s 11, eff. 6/7/2012.

1993 Act No. 181, Section 1030; 1973 (58) 685; 1962 Code Section 32-0.1.

2012 Act No. 222, Section 15, provides as follows:

"SECTION 15. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, any person elected or appointed to serve, or serving, as a member of any board, commission, or committee to represent a congressional district, whose residency is transferred to another district by a change in the composition of the district, may serve, or continue to serve, the term of office for which he was elected or appointed; however, the appointing or electing authority shall appoint or elect an additional member on that board, commission, or committee from the district which loses a resident member on it as a result of the transfer to serve until the term of the transferred member expires. When a vacancy occurs in the district to which a member has been transferred, the vacancy must not be filled until the full term of the transferred member expires."