S.C. Code § 44-1-20

Current through 2024 Act No. 209.

Section 44-1-20 - [Effective 7/1/2024] 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."

This section is set out more than once due to postponed, multiple, or conflicting amendments.