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SC Code § 44-20-460 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 44 - Health|Chapter 20 - South Carolina Intellectual Disability, Related Disabilities, Head Injuries, And Spinal Cord Injuries Act|Section 44-20-460. Discharge of client; detention of voluntarily admitted client; venue for judicial admission; protective custody for client.

 (A) A person admitted or committed to the services of the department remains a client and is eligible for services until discharged. When the department determines that a client admitted to services is no longer in need of them, the director or his designee may discharge him. When the only basis of the department's provision of services to a client is that he is a person with intellectual disability or a related disability and it is determined that he is no longer in that condition, the director or his designee shall discharge him as soon as practical. A client of the department who is receiving residential services may be released to his spouse, parent, guardian, or relative or another suitable person for a time and under conditions the director or his designee may prescribe.  (B) When a client voluntarily admitted requests discharge or the person upon whose application the client was admitted to the department's services requests discharge in writing, the client may be detained by the department for no more than ninety-six hours. However, if the condition of the person is considered by the director or his designee to be such that he cannot be discharged with safety to himself or with safety to the general public, the director or his designee may postpone the requested discharge for not more than fifteen days and cause to be filed an application for judicial admission. For the purpose of this section, the Probate Court or Family Court of the county in which the facility where the person with intellectual disability or a related disability resides is located is the venue for judicial admission. Pending a final determination on the application, the court shall order the person with intellectual disability or a related disability placed in protective custody in either a facility of the department or in some other suitable place designated by the court.  HISTORY: 1990 Act No. 496, Section 1; 1993 Act No. 181, Section 1078; 2011 Act No. 47, Section 2, eff June 7, 2011.
SC Code § 44-20-470 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 44 - Health|Chapter 20 - South Carolina Intellectual Disability, Related Disabilities, Head Injuries, And Spinal Cord Injuries Act|Section 44-20-470. Return of nonresident person with intellectual disability or related disability to agency of state of his residency; reciprocal agreements with other states; detention of person returned by out-of-state agency; expenses.

 (A) The department may return a nonresident person with intellectual disability or a related disability admitted to a service or program in this State to the proper agency of the state of his residence.  (B) The department is authorized to enter into reciprocal agreements with the proper agencies of other states to facilitate the return to the state of their residence persons admitted or committed to services for persons with intellectual disability or a related disability in this State or other states.  (C) The department may detain a person with intellectual disability or a related disability returned to this State from the state of his commitment for not more than ninety-six hours pending order of the court in commitment proceedings in this State.  (D) The expense of returning persons with intellectual disability or a related disability to other states must be paid by this State, and the expense of returning residents of this State with intellectual disability or a related disability must be paid by the state making the return when interstate agreements to that effect have been negotiated.  HISTORY: 1990 Act No. 496, Section 1; 1993 Act No. 181, Section 1078; 2011 Act No. 47, Section 2, eff June 7, 2011.
SC Code § 44-20-480 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 44 - Health|Chapter 20 - South Carolina Intellectual Disability, Related Disabilities, Head Injuries, And Spinal Cord Injuries Act|Section 44-20-480. Placement of client out of home; payment for services.

 When the department determines that the welfare of a client would be facilitated by his placement out of the home, the client must be evaluated by the department, and the least restrictive level of care possible for the client must be recommended and provided when available. The department shall determine which levels of care are more restrictive and is responsible for providing a range of placements offering various levels of supervision. The department may pay an individual or organization furnishing residential alternatives to clients under this section a reasonable sum for services rendered, as determined by the department.  HISTORY: 1990 Act No. 496, Section 1; 1993 Act No. 181, Section 1078; 2011 Act No. 47, Section 2, eff June 7, 2011.
SC Code § 44-20-490 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 44 - Health|Chapter 20 - South Carolina Intellectual Disability, Related Disabilities, Head Injuries, And Spinal Cord Injuries Act|Section 44-20-490. Placement of client in employment situation; sheltered employment and training programs; compensation of clients.

 (A) When the department determines that a client may benefit from being placed in an employment situation, the department shall regulate the terms and conditions of employment, shall supervise persons with intellectual disability, a related disability, head injury, or spinal cord injury so employed, and may assist the client in the management of monies earned through employment to the end that the best interests of the client are served.  (B) The department may operate sheltered employment and training programs at its various facilities and in communities and may pay clients employed in these settings from earnings of the program or from other funds available for this purpose.  (C) Clients who receive job training and employment services from the department must be compensated in accordance with applicable state and federal laws and regulations.  HISTORY: 1990 Act No. 496, Section 1; 1993 Act No. 181, Section 1078; 2011 Act No. 47, Section 2, eff June 7, 2011.
SC Code § 44-20-500 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 44 - Health|Chapter 20 - South Carolina Intellectual Disability, Related Disabilities, Head Injuries, And Spinal Cord Injuries Act|Section 44-20-500. Order of confinement for client.

 When a client is absent from a facility or program and there is probable cause the client may be in danger, the director or his designee may issue an order of confinement for the client. This order, when endorsed by the judge of the probate, family, or Circuit Court of the county in which the client is present or residing, authorizes a peace officer to take the client into custody for not more than twenty-four hours and to return him or cause him to be returned to the place designated by the director or his designee.  HISTORY: 1990 Act No. 496, Section 1; 1993 Act No. 181, Section 1078; 2011 Act No. 47, Section 2, eff June 7, 2011.
SC Code § 44-20-510 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 44 - Health|Chapter 20 - South Carolina Intellectual Disability, Related Disabilities, Head Injuries, And Spinal Cord Injuries Act|Section 44-20-510. Attendance of client in community based public school classes.

 Placement of a person with intellectual disability, a related disability, head injury, or spinal cord injury in a program of the department does not preclude his attendance in community-based public school classes when the individual qualifies for the classes.  HISTORY: 1990 Act No. 496, Section 1; 1993 Act No. 181, Section 1078; 2011 Act No. 47, Section 2, eff June 7, 2011.
SC Code § 44-20-710 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 44 - Health|Chapter 20 - South Carolina Intellectual Disability, Related Disabilities, Head Injuries, And Spinal Cord Injuries Act|Section 44-20-710. Licensing of facilities and programs.

 No day program in part or in full for the care, training, or treatment of a person with intellectual disability, a related disability, head injury, or spinal cord injury may deliver services unless a license first is obtained from the department. For the purpose of this article "in part" means a program operating for ten hours a week or more. Educational and training services offered under the sponsorship and direction of school districts and other state agencies are not required to be licensed under this article.  HISTORY: 1990 Act No. 496, Section 1; 1993 Act No. 181, Section 1078; 2011 Act No. 47, Section 2, eff June 7, 2011.
SC Code § 44-20-720 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 44 - Health|Chapter 20 - South Carolina Intellectual Disability, Related Disabilities, Head Injuries, And Spinal Cord Injuries Act|Section 44-20-720. Minimum standards of operation and license programs.

 The department shall establish minimum standards of operation and license programs provided for in "Facilities and Programs must be Licensed".  HISTORY: 1990 Act No. 496, Section 1; 1993 Act No. 181, Section 1078; 2011 Act No. 47, Section 2, eff June 7, 2011.
SC Code § 44-20-730 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 44 - Health|Chapter 20 - South Carolina Intellectual Disability, Related Disabilities, Head Injuries, And Spinal Cord Injuries Act|Section 44-20-730. Criteria for issuance of license.

 In determining whether a license may be issued, the department shall consider if the program for which the license is applied conforms with the local and state service plans and if the proposed location conforms to use.  HISTORY: 1990 Act No. 496, Section 1; 1993 Act No. 181, Section 1078; 2011 Act No. 47, Section 2, eff June 7, 2011.
SC Code § 44-20-740 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 44 - Health|Chapter 20 - South Carolina Intellectual Disability, Related Disabilities, Head Injuries, And Spinal Cord Injuries Act|Section 44-20-740. Restrictions as to services; number of clients; form of application for license; term of license; license as not transferrable.

 No day program may accept a person with intellectual disability, a related disability, head injury, or spinal cord injury for services other than those for which it is licensed. No program may serve more than the number of clients as provided on the license. An applicant for a license shall file an application with the department in a form and under conditions the department may prescribe. The license must be issued for up to three years unless sooner suspended, revoked, or surrendered. The license is not transferable and must not be assigned.  HISTORY: 1990 Act No. 496, Section 1; 1993 Act No. 181, Section 1078; 2011 Act No. 47, Section 2, eff June 7, 2011.
SC Code § 44-20-750 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 44 - Health|Chapter 20 - South Carolina Intellectual Disability, Related Disabilities, Head Injuries, And Spinal Cord Injuries Act|Section 44-20-750. Inspection of facilities; filing copy of bylaws, regulations, and rates of charges; inspection of records.

 The department shall make day program inspections as it may prescribe by regulation. The day programs subject to this article may be visited and inspected by the director or his designees no less than annually and before the issuance of a license. Upon request, each program shall file with the department a copy of its bylaws, regulations, and rates of charges. The records of each licensed program are open to the inspection of the director or his designees.  HISTORY: 1990 Act No. 496, Section 1; 1993 Act No. 181, Section 1078; 2011 Act No. 47, Section 2, eff June 7, 2011.
SC Code § 44-20-760 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 44 - Health|Chapter 20 - South Carolina Intellectual Disability, Related Disabilities, Head Injuries, And Spinal Cord Injuries Act|Section 44-20-760. Disclosure of inspections; protection of names of clients.

 Information received by the department through licensing inspections or as otherwise authorized may be disclosed publicly upon written request to the department. The reports may not identify individuals receiving services from the department.  HISTORY: 1990 Act No. 496, Section 1; 1993 Act No. 181, Section 1078; 2011 Act No. 47, Section 2, eff June 7, 2011.
SC Code § 44-20-770 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 44 - Health|Chapter 20 - South Carolina Intellectual Disability, Related Disabilities, Head Injuries, And Spinal Cord Injuries Act|Section 44-20-770. Denial, suspension, or revocation of license; grounds.

 The department shall deny, suspend, or revoke a license on any of the following grounds:  (1) failure to establish or maintain proper standards of care and service as prescribed by the department;  (2) conduct or practices detrimental to the health or safety of residents or employees of the day program. This item does not apply to healing practices authorized by law;  (3) violation of the provisions of this article or regulations promulgated under it.  HISTORY: 1990 Act No. 496, Section 1; 1993 Act No. 181, Section 1078; 2011 Act No. 47, Section 2, eff June 7, 2011.
SC Code § 44-20-780 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 44 - Health|Chapter 20 - South Carolina Intellectual Disability, Related Disabilities, Head Injuries, And Spinal Cord Injuries Act|Section 44-20-780. Notifying operator of program of deficiencies; time for correction; notice of impending denial, suspension, or revocation of license; exception for immediate threat.

 (A) The department shall give written notification to the governing board or if none, the operator of a program of deficiencies, and the applicant or licensee must be given a specified time in which to correct the deficiencies. If the department determines to deny, suspend, or revoke a license, it shall send to the applicant or licensee by certified mail a notice setting forth the reason for the determination. The denial, suspension, or revocation becomes final fifteen calendar days after the mailing of the notice, unless the applicant or licensee within that time gives written notice of his desire for a hearing. If the applicant or licensee gives that notice, he must be given a hearing before the department and may present evidence. On the basis of the evidence, the determination must be affirmed or set aside by the director, and a copy of the decision, setting forth the findings of fact and the reasons upon which it is based must be sent by registered mail to the applicant.  (B) If an existing program has conditions or practices which, in the department's judgment, provide an immediate threat to the safety and welfare of the person with intellectual disability, a related disability, head injury, or spinal cord injury served, the department may immediately suspend or revoke the license of the program. Notification of the program board or operator by certified mail of the license suspension or revocation also must include the reasons or conditions. A person operating a program which has had its license suspended or revoked must be punished as provided in "Injunctions; Penalties".  HISTORY: 1990 Act No. 496, Section 1; 1993 Act No. 181, Section 1078; 2011 Act No. 47, Section 2, eff June 7, 2011.
SC Code § 44-20-790 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 44 - Health|Chapter 20 - South Carolina Intellectual Disability, Related Disabilities, Head Injuries, And Spinal Cord Injuries Act|Section 44-20-790. Promulgation of regulations governing hearings.

 The procedures governing hearings authorized by "Notice of Deficiencies ." must be in accordance with regulations promulgated by the department. The director may appoint a review team, including consumers, to assist in the collection of information pertinent to the hearing.  HISTORY: 1990 Act No. 496, Section 1; 1993 Act No. 181, Section 1078; 2011 Act No. 47, Section 2, eff June 7, 2011.
SC Code § 44-20-800 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 44 - Health|Chapter 20 - South Carolina Intellectual Disability, Related Disabilities, Head Injuries, And Spinal Cord Injuries Act|Section 44-20-800. Appeal of decision concerning deficiencies and licenses.

 An applicant or licensee who is dissatisfied with the decision of the department as a result of the hearing provided for by "Procedures Governing Disciplinary Hearings ." may appeal to a South Carolina administrative law judge as provided in Article 5, Chapter 23, Title 1.  HISTORY: 1990 Act No. 496, Section 1; 1993 Act No. 181, Section 1078; 2011 Act No. 47, Section 2, eff June 7, 2011.
SC Code § 44-20-900 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 44 - Health|Chapter 20 - South Carolina Intellectual Disability, Related Disabilities, Head Injuries, And Spinal Cord Injuries Act|Section 44-20-900. Injunctions; sufficiency of complaint; fines and penalties.

 (A) The department, in accordance with the laws of the State governing injunctions and other processes, may maintain an action in the name of the State against a person for establishing, conducting, managing, or operating a day program for the care, training, and treatment of a person with intellectual disability, a related disability, head injury, or spinal cord injury without obtaining a license as provided in this article. In charging a defendant in a complaint in the action, it is sufficient to charge that the defendant, upon a certain day and in a certain county, provided day program services without a license, without averring more particular facts concerning the charge.  (B) A person violating the provisions of this article is guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, must be fined not more than one thousand dollars for a first offense and two thousand dollars for a subsequent offense. Each day the day program operates after a first conviction is considered a subsequent offense.  HISTORY: 1990 Act No. 496, Section 1; 1993 Act No. 181, Section 1078; 2011 Act No. 47, Section 2, eff June 7, 2011.
SC Code § 44-20-1000 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 44 - Health|Chapter 20 - South Carolina Intellectual Disability, Related Disabilities, Head Injuries, And Spinal Cord Injuries Act|Section 44-20-1000. Licensing by department to be done in conjunction with licensing by agency having responsibility outside the department's jurisdiction; cooperative agreements.

 Licensing by the department must be done in conjunction with and not in place of licensing by an agency having responsibilities outside the department's jurisdiction. However, nothing in this section prevents the department from entering into cooperative agreements or contracts with an agency which has or may have licensing responsibilities in order to accomplish the licensing of programs.  HISTORY: 1990 Act No. 496, Section 1; 1993 Act No. 181, Section 1078; 2011 Act No. 47, Section 2, eff June 7, 2011.
SC Code § 44-20-1110 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 44 - Health|Chapter 20 - South Carolina Intellectual Disability, Related Disabilities, Head Injuries, And Spinal Cord Injuries Act|Section 44-20-1110. Department's authority as to state's disabilities and special needs services and programs.

 The department has authority for all of the state's disabilities and special needs services and programs.  HISTORY: 1990 Act No. 496, Section 1; 1993 Act No. 181, Section 1078; 2011 Act No. 47, Section 2, eff June 7, 2011.
SC Code § 44-20-1120 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 44 - Health|Chapter 20 - South Carolina Intellectual Disability, Related Disabilities, Head Injuries, And Spinal Cord Injuries Act|Section 44-20-1120. Raising of money for construction of improvements.

 The commission may raise monies for the construction of improvements under the terms and conditions of this article.  HISTORY: 1990 Act No. 496, Section 1; 1993 Act No. 181, Section 1078; 2011 Act No. 47, Section 2, eff June 7, 2011.
SC Code § 44-20-1130 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 44 - Health|Chapter 20 - South Carolina Intellectual Disability, Related Disabilities, Head Injuries, And Spinal Cord Injuries Act|Section 44-20-1130. Limitation on amount of state capital improvement bonds.

 The aggregate of the outstanding principal amounts of state capital improvement bonds issued for the commission may not exceed twenty million dollars.  HISTORY: 1990 Act No. 496, Section 1; 1993 Act No. 181, Section 1078; 2011 Act No. 47, Section 2, eff June 7, 2011.
SC Code § 44-20-1140 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 44 - Health|Chapter 20 - South Carolina Intellectual Disability, Related Disabilities, Head Injuries, And Spinal Cord Injuries Act|Section 44-20-1140. Improvements for residential regional center or community facility; application.

 If the commission determines that improvements are required for a residential regional center or community facility, it may make application for them to the State Fiscal Accountability Authority or Department of Administration, as appropriate. The application must contain:  (1) a description of the improvements sought and their estimated cost;  (2) the number of paying clients receiving services from the department, the amount of fees received from the clients during the preceding fiscal year, and the estimated amount to be received from them during the next succeeding fiscal year;  (3) the revenues derived from the paying clients during the preceding three fiscal years;  (4) a suggested maturity schedule, which may not exceed twenty years, for the repayment of monies to be made available to the commission for state capital improvement bonds;  (5) a statement showing the debt service requirements of other outstanding obligations.  HISTORY: 1990 Act No. 496, Section 1; 1993 Act No. 181, Section 1078; 2011 Act No. 47, Section 2, eff June 7, 2011.
SC Code § 44-20-1150 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 44 - Health|Chapter 20 - South Carolina Intellectual Disability, Related Disabilities, Head Injuries, And Spinal Cord Injuries Act|Section 44-20-1150. Powers and duties concerning application for improvements.

 The State Fiscal Accountability Authority or Department of Administration, as appropriate, may approve, in whole or in part, or may modify an application received from the commission. If it finds that a need for the improvements sought by the commission exists, it may contract to make available to the commission funds to be realized from the sale of state capital improvements bonds if it finds that the revenues for the preceding fiscal year, if multiplied by the number of years, which may not exceed twenty, contemplated by the suggested or revised maturity schedule for the repayment of the monies to be made available to the commission, result in the production of a sum equal to not less than one hundred twenty-five percent of the aggregate principal and interest requirement of all outstanding obligations and all obligations to be incurred by the commission.  HISTORY: 1990 Act No. 496, Section 1; 1993 Act No. 181, Section 1078; 2011 Act No. 47, Section 2, eff June 7, 2011.
SC Code § 44-20-1160 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 44 - Health|Chapter 20 - South Carolina Intellectual Disability, Related Disabilities, Head Injuries, And Spinal Cord Injuries Act|Section 44-20-1160. Use of monies derived from revenues.

 Upon receiving the approval of the State Fiscal Accountability Authority or Department of Administration, as appropriate, the commission shall obligate itself to apply all monies derived from its revenues to the payment of the principal and interest of its outstanding obligations and those to be issued and to deliver to the board its obligations.  HISTORY: 1990 Act No. 496, Section 1; 1993 Act No. 181, Section 1078; 2011 Act No. 47, Section 2, eff June 7, 2011.