South Carolina Code — 43
Browse 356 sections in division 43 of the South Carolina code. Each section page includes the full statutory text, official source links, and citation guidance.
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- § 43-1-10. State Department of Social Services; subordinate divisions; director.
- § 43-1-50. State Director of Social Services; selection; term; duties; salary; bond.
- § 43-1-60. State Advisory Council and Committees.
- § 43-1-70. Selection of other employees of State Department; compensation; bond.
- § 43-1-80. Powers, duties and purpose of State Department.
- § 43-1-90. State Department shall supervise administration of assistance; forms; rules and regulations.
- § 43-1-100. State Department may investigate certain institutions or agencies.
- § 43-1-110. State Department may cooperate with Federal Government in administration of Federal Child Welfare Services.
- § 43-1-115. County office performance audits.
- § 43-1-120. State Department may secure all possible Federal aid.
- § 43-1-135. State Department to administer Social Services Block Grant Program.
- § 43-1-140. State Department shall keep proper records.
- § 43-1-150. Rules and regulations governing use and disclosure of public assistance information.
- § 43-1-160. Unauthorized use or disclosure of public assistance information; penalties.
- § 43-1-170. Preparation and submission of annual budget.
- § 43-1-190. Depositories; security for deposits.
- § 43-1-200. Payment of salaries, expenses and assistance; lump sum requisitions.
- § 43-1-205. Program standards for treatment of perpetrators of domestic violence.
- § 43-1-210. Annual report and recommendations.
- § 43-1-230. Restrictions on direct services provided by State Department under Title XX.
- § 43-1-240. Coordination with First Steps to School Readiness initiative.
- § 43-1-260. Repealed.
- § 43-1-710. Names of persons benefitting from assistance payments available to other state agencies.
- § 43-1-715. Supplementing salary of employee of Department of Social Services.
- § 43-1-720. Establishing and collecting accounts receivable.
- § 43-3-10. County departments and boards of social services; creation; membership; appointment; terms; vacancies; termination.
- § 43-3-20. Compensation of members of county boards.
- § 43-3-30. Chairman; meetings; quorum; rules of procedure.
- § 43-3-40. County directors; selection; salaries; duties.
- § 43-3-50. County advisory councils of social services.
- § 43-3-60. Duties and powers of county directors.
- § 43-3-65. Office space and facility service to be supplied for county Department of Social Services.
- § 43-3-70. Estimates of county expenses; authority to engage, and qualifications of, agents and employees.
- § 43-3-80. County budgets; records of activities and funds.
- § 43-3-90. Standards of work, procedure and records of county directors.
- § 43-3-100. Records and accounts of county departments; inspection, supervision, and audit.
- § 43-3-110. Reports of county directors.
- § 43-5-10. Implementation and administration of public welfare program; regulations.
- § 43-5-15. Applications for assistance; manner and form.
- § 43-5-20. Payments to support needy child and eligible caretaker; counseling for recipient where aid not being used in best interests of child; appointment of protective payee.
- § 43-5-24. Provision of information regarding contraception and family planning.
- § 43-5-25. Wilful use of payment for purpose not in best interests of child; protective payee.
- § 43-5-30. Overpayments and underpayments; recoupment or correction.
- § 43-5-40. Unlawful publication or other use of records; penalty.
- § 43-5-45. Notice by department of intended action.
- § 43-5-50. One-time grant in event assistance check lost, stolen or destroyed.
- § 43-5-60. Assistance subject to future legislation; no claim against State.
- § 43-5-65. Application of eligibility.
- § 43-5-70. Identification and proof of residence; verification of employment, income and other information; absence from State.
- § 43-5-75. Information from banks concerning applicant or recipient of aid.
- § 43-5-95. Aid to eighteen-year-old full-time students who are in secondary school or other equivalent training.
- § 43-5-120. Request for income tax return; use of information contained in return; notice to recipient; referral to authorities of violations of law.
- § 43-5-125. "Living with" defined; verification of child's residence.
- § 43-5-130. Consideration of income of relative.
- § 43-5-140. Annual notification of eligibility and reporting requirements; duty to report; failure to report; change in eligibility.
- § 43-5-145. Investigation of application.
- § 43-5-148. Date on which assistance shall begin.
- § 43-5-150. Appeal to State department; proceedings; further appeals.
- § 43-5-155. Appeal if application not acted upon within specified time.
- § 43-5-160. Review by state department on own motion or request of applicant.
- § 43-5-165. Investigation, hearing, and decision by state department.
- § 43-5-170. Subpoenas, oaths and examinations of witnesses.
- § 43-5-175. Effect of state department's decision on county department.
- § 43-5-180. Charges and fees for representing applicants or recipients of assistance.
- § 43-5-185. Public officers prohibited from attempting to influence decisions regarding applications for assistance; penalty.
- § 43-5-190. Payments to be exempt from taxes, levy or other process; payments to be inalienable and unassignable; bankruptcy.
- § 43-5-200. Endorsement when recipient dies after issuance of check.
- § 43-5-220. Obtaining support payments from absent parents; amount; proceedings.
- § 43-5-222. Portion of child support payments to be paid to welfare recipients; department to be reimbursed.
- § 43-5-225. Central registry of records; assistance of other agencies; availability of records.
- § 43-5-230. Public Welfare Cooperative Support Program Fund.
- § 43-5-235. Reimbursement of local entities for costs of child support collection and paternity determination program.
- § 43-5-240. Execution of cooperative support program agreement.
- § 43-5-245. Time and forms for submission of plans for operating program; execution of contract upon approval.
- § 43-5-310. General assistance to handicapped or unfortunate persons who are unable to support themselves.
- § 43-5-320. General assistance to certain persons who are essential to welfare of others.
- § 43-5-330. Application for assistance.
- § 43-5-340. Investigation of application; visit to applicant's home.
- § 43-5-350. Grant of assistance; amount.
- § 43-5-400. Definitions.
- § 43-5-410. Cooperation with federal government; administration of funds.
- § 43-5-420. Application for aid.
- § 43-5-430. Investigation and report.
- § 43-5-440. Grant for aid; denial of aid; appeal.
- § 43-5-450. Amount of grants.
- § 43-5-460. Estimate of amount needed per county.
- § 43-5-470. Federal funds for aid to dependent children.
- § 43-5-580. Enforcement of support obligations of absent parents.
- § 43-5-590. Powers and duties of Department of Social Services in accordance with approved child support plan.
- § 43-5-598. Definitions; new hire directory; employee to file report; access to information in directory.
- § 43-5-600. Applicability of legal process, brought to enforce child or spousal support obligations, to payments by State.
- § 43-5-610. Maintenance of central registry of records; availability of records.
- § 43-5-620. Establishment of uniform system of information clearance and retrieval; information to be furnished by bureaus of employment security and motor vehicles; confidential or privileged information.
- § 43-5-630. Proration of intermittent income received by applicants for assistance.
- § 43-5-910. Short title; definitions.
- § 43-5-920. Administration.
- § 43-5-930. Implementation and enforcement in general.
- § 43-5-940. Department's authority.
- § 43-5-950. Criminal sanctions.
- § 43-5-960. Civil sanctions.
- § 43-5-970. Appeals.
- § 43-5-1105. State welfare policy.
- § 43-5-1110. Definitions.
- § 43-5-1115. Employment and training for those receiving assistance.
- § 43-5-1120. Welfare agreements; leave from employment for family planning services; employment and training components of receiving assistance.
- § 43-5-1125. Sanctions for failing to comply with welfare agreement.
- § 43-5-1130. County departmental goals for hiring welfare recipients.
- § 43-5-1135. State agency goals to recruit and employ welfare recipients.
- § 43-5-1140. Labor market and occupational information to be provided to department.
- § 43-5-1145. Cash assistance payments paid as wage subsidy or tax credit.
- § 43-5-1150. Job Training and Partnership Act incentive funds.
- § 43-5-1155. Entrepreneurial development.
- § 43-5-1160. Relocation assistance.
- § 43-5-1165. Teen parent independence initiative.
- § 43-5-1170. Time limited welfare and exceptions.
- § 43-5-1175. No increase in welfare with increase in number of children.
- § 43-5-1180. Participation in work support required when child is one year old.
- § 43-5-1185. Family skills training program.
- § 43-5-1190. Eligibility denied on ground of alcohol or drug problem; treatment program required.
- § 43-5-1195. Eligibility based on parent's support and employment revised.
- § 43-5-1200. Vehicle and other asset limits.
- § 43-5-1205. Interest income and dividends to be excluded.
- § 43-5-1210. Minor child's income to be excluded.
- § 43-5-1215. Welfare recipients under age eighteen must attend school.
- § 43-5-1220. Minor mother must live with minor's parents to receive welfare; exceptions.
- § 43-5-1225. Outreach and information programs.
- § 43-5-1230. Family to be served as a whole.
- § 43-5-1235. Increased health care access through existing resources.
- § 43-5-1240. Transitional Medicaid and child care.
- § 43-5-1245. Federal child care funds must be sought.
- § 43-5-1250. Endorsement of statewide mass transit network.
- § 43-5-1255. Adult education initiatives.
- § 43-5-1260. Technical education partnership initiatives.
- § 43-5-1265. Simplification of application forms.
- § 43-5-1270. Information on absent parent required.
- § 43-5-1275. Electronic data interchange standards.
- § 43-5-1280. Review of federal and state procurement and purchasing regulations.
- § 43-5-1285. Annual report.
- § 43-7-20. State Department shall secure Federal funds.
- § 43-7-50. Payments for professional services under State Medicaid Program shall be uniform within State.
- § 43-7-60. False claim, statement, or representation by medical provider prohibited; violation is a misdemeanor; penalties.
- § 43-7-70. False statement or representation on application for assistance prohibited; violation is a misdemeanor; penalties.
- § 43-7-80. Provider required to keep separate accounts and records; violation is a misdemeanor; penalties.
- § 43-7-90. Enforcement of Sections 43-7-60 to 43-7-80.
- § 43-7-210. Right to attach wages, fees and commissions of medical care recipients and persons liable for expenses.
- § 43-7-220. Petition for attachment; effective date of order.
- § 43-7-230. Service of summons, petition and order on employee and employer; answers.
- § 43-7-240. Time for showing cause for dismissal; grounds for dismissal without prejudice.
- § 43-7-250. Production of payroll records and other information.
- § 43-7-260. Appeals.
- § 43-7-270. Return of money wrongfully withheld with interest and attorney's fee.
- § 43-7-280. Deduction from payments for employer's services.
- § 43-7-410. Definitions.
- § 43-7-420. Assignment of rights to department; presumption of receipt of information regarding requirement for consequences or assignment.
- § 43-7-430. Subrogation of rights to department.
- § 43-7-440. Enforcement and superiority of department's subrogation rights; provider assistance in identification of third parties liable for medical costs; ineffectiveness of certain insurance provisions.
- § 43-7-450. Claims or actions pending or brought before June 11, 1986.
- § 43-7-460. Recovery of medical assistance paid from estates of certain individuals.
- § 43-7-465. Insurers providing coverage to persons receiving Medicaid; requirements for doing business in State.
- § 43-21-10. Department on Aging created; Advisory Council on Aging; membership, qualifications; appointment; election of chair; compensation and meetings of council; rules and procedures.
- § 43-21-20. Terms of members; vacancies; termination of appointments.
- § 43-21-30. Reserved.
- § 43-21-40. Department shall be State agency to implement and administer aging programs of Federal Government; powers and duties generally.
- § 43-21-45. Area agencies on aging; focal points; duties of focal points.
- § 43-21-50. Receipt of grants-in-aid, gifts or the like; title to property received.
- § 43-21-60. Submission and contents of annual report.
- § 43-21-70. Employment of director.
- § 43-21-80. Appointment and compensation of personnel and consultants.
- § 43-21-100. Preparation and approval of budget.
- § 43-21-110. Annual appropriation.
- § 43-21-120. Coordinating council.
- § 43-21-130. Long Term Care Council; membership; meetings; reports.
- § 43-21-140. Purpose and duties of council.
- § 43-21-150. Educational and informational program.
- § 43-21-160. Eldercare Trust Fund created; funding; purpose; administration.
- § 43-21-170. Administration of Eldercare Trust Fund; powers of department.
- § 43-21-180. Portion of fund available for disbursement.
- § 43-21-190. Model legislature on aging issues.
- § 43-21-200. Physicians trained in geriatrics or geropsychiatry; student loan repayment program; Physician Advisory Board created to review applicants.
- § 43-25-10. Commission for the Blind created; membership; qualifications and terms of members; meetings; officers; compensation.
- § 43-25-20. "Blindness" and "severe visual disability" as criteria for acceptance for services for persons who qualify.
- § 43-25-30. Powers and duties of commission.
- § 43-25-40. Commission shall establish application procedure; register of ophthalmologists; commission shall pay examination costs.
- § 43-25-50. Eye examinations and medical and surgical treatment for visually handicapped persons; reports of results.
- § 43-25-60. Itinerant counselors shall assist in schools; visually handicapped pupils shall be reported to commission.
- § 43-25-70. Concession stands.
- § 43-25-80. Fund for treatment and training of visually handicapped.
- § 43-25-90. Right to and procedures at hearings and appeals; effect of appeal.
- § 43-25-100. Transfer of certain powers and duties of Division for the Blind to Commission.
- § 43-26-10. Definitions.
- § 43-26-20. Powers of commission.
- § 43-26-30. Duties of commission.
- § 43-26-40. Licenses for operation of vending facilities; hearing and termination.
- § 43-26-50. Options to establish vending facilities operated by blind persons.
- § 43-26-60. Articles which may be sold at such facilities.
- § 43-26-70. Space for such facilities in new construction or remodeling of public buildings; costs.
- § 43-26-80. Blind vendors may have guide dogs on public property.
- § 43-26-90. Buildings not subject to chapter.
- § 43-26-100. Effect on existing vending facilities operated by the blind.
- § 43-26-110. Existing facilities may not be sold until option to lease given to commission.
- § 43-31-10. Short title.
- § 43-31-20. Declaration of policy.
- § 43-31-30. Definitions.
- § 43-31-40. State Agency of Vocational Rehabilitation; appointment and terms of members.
- § 43-31-50. Chairman of Agency; meetings; compensation of members.
- § 43-31-60. Duties and powers of Agency generally.
- § 43-31-70. Appointment and qualifications of Commissioner of Vocational Rehabilitation.
- § 43-31-80. Duties and powers of commissioner generally.
- § 43-31-90. Administration of chapter.
- § 43-31-100. Persons eligible for services; plan effective throughout State.
- § 43-31-110. Services shall be available to disabled civil employees of United States.
- § 43-31-120. Vocational rehabilitation fund.
- § 43-31-130. Acceptance and use of gifts, Federal grants and other funds.
- § 43-31-140. Appropriations.
- § 43-31-145. Consideration to be given similar benefits available to handicapped in meeting cost of rehabilitation; insurance carriers not to deny benefits.
- § 43-31-150. Unlawful disclosure or use of information; records and communications are confidential and privileged.
- § 43-31-160. Department of Vocational Rehabilitation to provide services to certain inmates.
- § 43-31-170. Training and experience requirements for counselors.
- § 43-33-10. Declaration of policy.
- § 43-33-20. Right of use of public facilities and accommodations of blind, other special need persons, and guide dog trainers.
- § 43-33-25. Use of motorized chairs or carts by handicapped on beaches.
- § 43-33-30. Duty of driver approaching blind pedestrian; failure of blind pedestrian to carry white cane or use guide dog.
- § 43-33-40. Unlawful interference with rights of blind or other physically disabled person.
- § 43-33-50. White Cane Safety Day.
- § 43-33-60. Policy regarding employment of blind and other physically disabled persons.
- § 43-33-70. Right of blind and other physically disabled persons to equal access to housing accommodations.
- § 43-33-210. Definitions.
- § 43-33-220. Nondiscrimination in psychometric testing by State agencies; technical assistance to agencies; special assistance or procedures for handicapped persons.
- § 43-33-230. Complaints.
- § 43-33-310. Legislative findings.
- § 43-33-320. Repealed.
- § 43-33-330. Appointment of board.
- § 43-33-340. Definitions.
- § 43-33-350. Powers and duties of System.
- § 43-33-360. Interview of complainant.
- § 43-33-370. Authority of system upon receipt of written request to investigate complaint.
- § 43-33-380. Information not to be disclosed unless authorized in writing.
- § 43-33-390. Immunity from civil and criminal liability for persons providing information in good faith.
- § 43-33-400. Cooperation with departments, officers, agencies, and institutions; requests for system to provide protection and advocacy services; inspection and copying of records.
- § 43-33-510. Short title.
- § 43-33-520. Guaranteed opportunities.
- § 43-33-530. Discrimination prohibited without reasonable justification.
- § 43-33-540. Injunctive relief or civil damages for persons discriminated against.
- § 43-33-560. Handicap, handicapped, and mental impairment defined.
- § 43-33-570. Reasonable justification defined.
- § 43-35-5. Short title.
- § 43-35-10. Definitions.
- § 43-35-13. Nonmedical remedial treatment by spiritual means is not abuse or neglect of vulnerable adult.
- § 43-35-15. Vulnerable Adults Investigations Unit; Long Term Care Ombudsman Program; Adult Protective Services Program; responsibilities; referral of reports.
- § 43-35-20. Additional powers of investigative entities.
- § 43-35-25. Persons required to report abuse, neglect, or exploitation of adult; reporting methods.
- § 43-35-30. Photographing of visible trauma on abused adult.
- § 43-35-35. Reporting deaths where abuse or neglect suspected.
- § 43-35-40. Responsibilities when a report is received; initiation of investigation; reports to local law enforcement or Vulnerable Adults Investigations Unit.
- § 43-35-45. Warrant from family court to permit investigation of report; order for protective services; appointment of guardian and attorney; evaluation; hearing; review; semiannual reevaluation; payment for services.
- § 43-35-50. Abrogation of privilege for certain communications.
- § 43-35-55. Protective custody by law enforcement officer; procedure; notification of protective services program; subsequent proceedings.
- § 43-35-60. Sharing of report information by investigative entities; public confidentiality.
- § 43-35-65. Notices to be displayed at facilities.
- § 43-35-70. Reports to occupational licensing boards.
- § 43-35-75. Immunity of person making report or participating in investigation in good faith.
- § 43-35-80. Action by Attorney General against person or facility for failure to exercise reasonable care; fine.
- § 43-35-85. Penalties.
- § 43-35-87. Financial exploitation; financial institution authority to decline transaction requests.
- § 43-35-90. Article not to affect authority of agencies.
- § 43-35-200. Vulnerable Adult Guardian ad Litem Program.
- § 43-35-210. Definitions.
- § 43-35-220. Duties and responsibilities of guardian ad litem; assessments.
- § 43-35-230. Appointment of guardian ad litem; continuing legal education.
- § 43-35-240. Appointment of guardian ad litem for abuse, neglect, or exploitation proceedings; criminal background checks.
- § 43-35-250. Charge of guardian ad litem; petition for removal.
- § 43-35-260. Access to information.
- § 43-35-270. Confidentiality of reports and information.
- § 43-35-280. Civil liability.
- § 43-35-290. Funding.
- § 43-35-310. Council created; membership; filling vacancies.
- § 43-35-320. Responsibilities of council.
- § 43-35-330. Duties of council.
- § 43-35-340. Officers; terms of office; quorum.
- § 43-35-350. Meetings.
- § 43-35-500. Definitions.
- § 43-35-510. Policy of State regarding health and safety of vulnerable adults.
- § 43-35-520. Investigations of deaths in facilities operated by the Department of Mental Health or the Department of Disabilities and Special Needs; death by natural causes in a veterans' nursing home.
- § 43-35-530. Conduct of investigations.
- § 43-35-540. Access to medical information.
- § 43-35-550. Subpoena of medical information.
- § 43-35-560. Vulnerable Adults Fatalities Review Committee; members; terms; meetings; administrative support.
- § 43-35-570. Purpose of Vulnerable Adult Fatalities Review Committee.
- § 43-35-580. Meetings discussing individual cases closed; disclosure of information identifying vulnerable adult or family member.
- § 43-35-590. Confidential and public information.
- § 43-35-595. Promulgation of regulations.
- § 43-38-10. Facility defined.
- § 43-38-20. Long Term Care Ombudsman Program authorized to investigate complaints; release and disclosure of information from medical records; issuance of report and recommendations.
- § 43-38-30. Cooperation of departments, officers, and agencies required.
- § 43-38-40. Civil and criminal immunity for participants in judicial proceedings; presumption of good faith.
- § 43-38-50. Exception as to County Homes.
- § 43-38-60. Long Term Care Ombudsman Program to designate entities under Older American Act.
- § 43-39-10. Midlands Human Resources Development Commission created.
- § 43-39-20. Commission to constitute corporate body.
- § 43-39-30. Composition of membership; authorization to increase total membership; apportionment of new seats.