Statutes, codes, and regulations
Code of Laws of South Carolina 1976
Title 43 - SOCIAL SERVICES
Chapter 21 - DEPARTMENT AND ADVISORY COUNCIL ON AGING
Section 43-21-120 - Coordinating council

S.C. Code § 43-21-120

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Current through 2024 Act No. 225.
Section 43-21-120 - Coordinating council

There is created the Coordinating Council to the Department on Aging to work with the department on the coordination of programs related to the field of aging, and to advise and make pertinent recommendations, composed of the following: the Director of the Department of Health and Environmental Control, the State Director of Social Services, the Director of the Department of Mental Health, the Superintendent of Education, the Director of the State Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation, the Executive Director of the South Carolina State Department of Employment and Workforce, the Secretary of Commerce, the Commissioner of the State Department of Vocational Rehabilitation, the Director of the Clemson University Extension Service, the Director of the South Carolina Department of Parks, Recreation and Tourism, the Director of the South Carolina Retirement System, the Executive Director of the South Carolina Municipal Association, the Executive Director of the State Office of Economic Opportunity, the Executive Director of the South Carolina Association of Counties, the Commissioner of the Commission for the Blind, the Director of the Department of Health and Human Services, the Director of the Department of Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse Services, and the Chairperson of the Commission on Women.

The council shall meet at least once each six months and special meetings may be called at the discretion of the chairman or upon request of a majority of the members.

The chairman of the advisory commission and the director of the Department on Aging, who shall serve as secretary to the council, shall attend the meetings of the council.

The director of each agency or department making up the council shall serve as chairman of the council for a term of one year. The office of chairman is held in the order in which the membership of the council is listed in this section.

S.C. Code § 43-21-120

Amended by 2010 S.C. Acts, Act No. 146 (HB 3442), s 122, eff. 3/25/2010.
2008 Act No. 353, Section 2, Pt 25C, eff 7/1/2009; 1994 Act No. 361, Section 8, eff 5/3/1994; 1993 Act No. 181, Section 1024, eff 7/1/1993; 1986 Act No. 428, Section 8, eff 7/1/1986; 1972 (57) 2382; 1971 (57) 385; 1962 Code Section 71-300.31.

Code Commissioner's Note

At the direction of the Code Commissioner, references to "Department on Aging" and "department" were substituted for "Division on Aging" and "division" to comply with amendments made by 2018 Act No. 261.