South Carolina § 8-11-700 - Definitions.
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§ 8-11-700. Definitions.
As used in this article:
(1) "Employing agency" means the agency in which the leave recipient is employed.
(2) "Leave donor" means an employee of an employing agency whose voluntary written request for transfer of annual or sick leave to the pool leave account of his employing agency is granted.
(3) "Leave recipient" means an employee of an employing agency who has a personal emergency and is selected to receive annual or sick leave from the pool leave account of his employing agency.
(4) "Personal emergency" means a catastrophic and debilitating medical situations, severely complicated disabilities, severe accident cases, family medical emergencies or other hardship situations that are likely to require an employee's absence from duty for a prolonged period of time and to result in a substantial loss of income to the employee because of the unavailability of paid leave.
(5) "Division" means the Human Resource Management Division of the Department of Administration.
HISTORY: 1988 Act No. 524, SECTION 2, eff May 18, 1988; 1995 Act No. 145, Part II, SECTION 64A, eff June 29, 1995.
Source: official South Carolina text · Last verified 2026-08-27
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