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SC Code § 44-93-100 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 44 - Health|Chapter 93 - Infectious Waste Management|Section 44-93-100. Generators exempt from provisions of chapter.

 All in-state generators that produce less than fifty pounds of infectious waste a month are exempt from the provisions of this chapter except they shall comply with:  (1) the provisions of Section 44-93-90(A) of this chapter; and  (2) the management of the following infectious waste:  (a) sharps must be managed pursuant to this chapter and any regulations promulgated under this chapter;  (b) cultures and human blood and blood products must be managed pursuant to this chapter and any regulations promulgated under this chapter;  (c) products of conception, meaning fetal tissues and embryonic tissues resulting from implantation in the uterus, must be managed in accordance with requirements for pathological waste pursuant to this chapter and any regulations promulgated under this chapter;  (d) all other infectious waste may be disposed of as other solid waste.  HISTORY: 1989 Act No. 134, Section 1; 1995 Act No. 1, Section 4; 2002 Act No. 351, Section 1, eff July 20, 2002.
SC Code § 44-93-110 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 44 - Health|Chapter 93 - Infectious Waste Management|Section 44-93-110. Waste treatment, storage, or disposal facility prohibited from accepting certain infectious waste.

 It is unlawful for a person who owns or operates a waste treatment, storage, or disposal facility within this State to accept any infectious waste generated in a jurisdiction which prohibits by law the treatment, storage, or disposal of that infectious waste within that jurisdiction.  HISTORY: 1989 Act No. 134, Section 1.
SC Code § 44-93-120 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 44 - Health|Chapter 93 - Infectious Waste Management|Section 44-93-120. Permit requirements.

 Upon promulgation of regulations as specified in Section 44-93-30, no person may operate an infectious waste treatment or disposal facility or generator facility without first obtaining a permit as required by department regulations.  HISTORY: 1989 Act No. 134, Section 1.
SC Code § 44-93-125 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 44 - Health|Chapter 93 - Infectious Waste Management|Section 44-93-125. Permit to expand or construct facility; exceptions.

 No person may expand or construct a new facility without a permit issued by the department. To obtain a permit, the applicant shall demonstrate the need for a facility or expansion. To determine if there is a need, infectious waste generated out-of-state may not be considered without department approval.  This section does not apply to:  (1) facilities owned by counties, municipalities, or public service districts which accept only infectious waste generated in this State;  (2) facilities that are owned or operated by the generator of the waste and this waste is generated in this State;  (3) generator facilities; or  (4) facilities currently operating under permits issued by the department, or to the renewal of existing permits issued by the department if there is no expansion of the capacity as prescribed in the conditions of the permit.  HISTORY: 1989 Act No. 134, Section 1.
SC Code § 44-93-130 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 44 - Health|Chapter 93 - Infectious Waste Management|Section 44-93-130. Refusal to issue or renew registration to transport, or permit to operate; rehabilitation.

 (A) The director may refuse to issue or renew a registration to transport infectious waste or a permit to operate a facility if he finds that within five years of the application for a registration or permit, the applicant has been:  (1) convicted of a crime involving moral turpitude by a court of law and all appeals have been exhausted;  (2) convicted pursuant to a violation of this chapter or any other laws of this State pertaining to solid or hazardous waste punishable as a felony; or  (3) adjudicated in contempt of a court order pertaining to the enforcement of a provision of this chapter or any other state or federal laws governing hazardous waste.  (B) The director may issue a registration or permit if the person has affirmatively demonstrated rehabilitation. The director, in making this determination, shall consider whether:  (1) the person has established formal controls and environmental auditing programs which would enhance compliance and prevent the occurrence of future violations; and  (2) the personal conduct of the person after the conviction or adjudication as it relates to the provisions and purposes of this chapter and any subsequent recommendations of other persons since rehabilitation.  HISTORY: 1989 Act No. 134, Section 1; 1993 Act No. 181, Section 1150.
SC Code § 44-93-140 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 44 - Health|Chapter 93 - Infectious Waste Management|Section 44-93-140. Unlawful to fail to comply with statute or regulations.

 Following the promulgation of the regulations required pursuant to Section 44-93-30, it is unlawful for a person to fail to comply with this chapter or with a procedure or requirement set forth in the regulations.  HISTORY: 1989 Act No. 134, Section 1.
SC Code § 44-93-150 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 44 - Health|Chapter 93 - Infectious Waste Management|Section 44-93-150. Enforcement; penalties.

 (A) Whenever the department finds that a person is in violation of a permit, regulation, standard, or requirement under this chapter, the department may issue an order requiring the person to comply with the permit, regulation, standard, or requirement or the department may bring civil action for injunctive relief in the appropriate court; or, the department may request that the Attorney General bring civil or criminal enforcement action under subsection (B) or (C) of this section. Violation of a court order issued pursuant to this section is contempt of the issuing court and punishable as provided by law. The department also may invoke civil penalties as provided in this section for violations of the provisions of this chapter, including an order, permit, regulation, or standard. After exhaustion of administrative remedies, a person against whom a civil penalty is invoked by the department may appeal the decision of the department or board to the Court of Common Pleas.  (B) A person who violates a provision of Section 44-93-140 is liable for a civil penalty not to exceed ten thousand dollars a day of violation.  (C) A person who wilfully violates a provision of Section 44-93-140 is guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, must be fined not more than ten thousand dollars for each day of violation or imprisoned for not more than one year, or both. If the conviction is for a second or subsequent offense, the punishment must be by a fine not to exceed twenty-five thousand dollars for each day of violation or imprisonment not to exceed two years, or both.  (D) Each day of noncompliance with an order issued pursuant to this chapter or noncompliance with a permit, regulation, standard, or requirement pursuant to this chapter constitutes a separate offense.  HISTORY: 1989 Act No. 134, Section 1.
SC Code § 44-93-160 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 44 - Health|Chapter 93 - Infectious Waste Management|Section 44-93-160. Fees on commercial treatment of infectious waste; reports; penalties.

 (A) There is a fee on the treatment of infectious waste in this State equal to thirty dollars a ton for the first one thousand five hundred tons in a month and eight dollars a ton in excess of one thousand five hundred tons a month on the pretreatment weight of infectious waste to be imposed upon facilities required to be permitted pursuant to this chapter.  (B) The owner or operator of a facility required to be permitted pursuant to this chapter treating infectious waste shall submit, not later than the tenth day of each month, to the Department of Health and Environmental Control:  (1) a report detailing the total weight of infectious waste received for treatment during the preceding month and its point of origin;  (2) a check made payable to the department for the fee due for the preceding month;  (3) in case of failure to file a return on or before the date prescribed by law or failure to pay a fee on or before the date prescribed by law, there must be added a penalty of twenty-five percent of the amount of fee due. The department may revoke a permit to operate for failure to pay any fees, penalties, or interest required by law. Upon payment the department may reinstate the permit to an operator of a permitted treatment facility treating infectious waste in this State. The penalty provided by this item may be reduced or waived by the department for reasonable cause.  (C) A person treating infectious waste who fails to remit the fee or penalty as provided by law must be charged interest at the rate of one percent a month. Interest must be calculated on the full amount of the fee or portion of it, exclusive of penalties, from the time the fee or penalty was due and paid in its entirety.  HISTORY: 1989 Act No. 134, Section 1; 1990 Act No. 612, Part II, Section 6A; 1994 Act No. 497, Part II, Section 30B; 1997 Act No. 155, Part II, Section 78A.
SC Code § 44-93-165 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 44 - Health|Chapter 93 - Infectious Waste Management|Section 44-93-165. Infectious Waste Program Fund; establishment; funding.

 The department shall establish an Infectious Waste Program Fund to ensure the availability of funds to carry out the department's responsibilities under this chapter. This fund must be financed by the fees imposed pursuant to Section 44-93-160. From the revenue derived from the fees on infectious waste, an amount equal to eight dollars a ton for the first one thousand five hundred tons in a month must be deposited into the Infectious Waste Program Fund.  HISTORY: 1994 Act No. 497, Part II, Section 30A; 1997 Act No. 155, Part II, Section 78B.
SC Code § 44-93-170 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 44 - Health|Chapter 93 - Infectious Waste Management|Section 44-93-170. Infectious Waste Contingency Fund.

 The department shall establish an Infectious Waste Contingency Fund to ensure the availability of funds for response actions necessary at permitted infectious waste treatment facilities and necessary from accidents in the transportation of infectious waste and to defray the cost of governmental response actions associated with infectious waste. After funding of the Infectious Waste Program Fund, as provided for in Section 44-93-165, the Infectious Waste Contingency Fund must be financed by the remaining fees imposed pursuant to Section 44-93-160. The fees credited to the Infectious Waste Contingency Fund must be allocated as follows: an amount equal to two-thirds of the fees must be deposited into the fund and an amount equal to one-third of the fees must be held in a separate and distinct account within the fund for the purpose of being returned to each county in which the fee imposed by Section 44-93-160 is collected. When the amount of fees held in the Infectious Waste Contingency Fund meets or exceeds three hundred fifty thousand dollars, all fees remaining after funding the Infectious Waste Program Fund must be placed in the account established for counties and distributed as provided for in this section. When the balance in the Infectious Waste Contingency Fund reaches $250,000 or less, all fees remaining after funding the Infectious Waste Program Fund must be retained by the contingency fund until the fund reaches $350,000. Interest earned by the funds must be credited to the general fund of the State. Proceeds of the county account returned to a county pursuant to this section must be released by the State Treasurer upon the written request of a majority of the legislative delegation of the recipient county.  HISTORY: 1989 Act No. 134, Section 1; 1990 Act No. 612, Part II, Section 6B; 1992 Act No. 501, Part II Section 20A; 1994 Act No. 497, Part II, Section 30C; 1996 Act No. 458, Part II, Section 103.
SC Code § 44-93-180 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 44 - Health|Chapter 93 - Infectious Waste Management|Section 44-93-180. Inspection of treatment facilities; fees.

 The department shall assign as may be necessary a health inspector to serve at a commercial infectious waste treatment facility located in South Carolina for the purpose of assuring the protection of the health and safety of the public by monitoring the receipt, handling, treatment, and disposal of infectious waste at these sites. The department shall establish a fee schedule to cover the costs of implementing this inspection program. The fee must be collected from the commercial infectious waste facilities based upon the amount of infectious waste received.  HISTORY: 1989 Act No. 134, Section 1.
SC Code § 44-93-190 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 44 - Health|Chapter 93 - Infectious Waste Management|Section 44-93-190. Chapter inapplicable to treatment or disposal of hazardous waste.

 This chapter does not apply to the treatment or disposal of hazardous waste regulated under the South Carolina Hazardous Waste Management Act.  HISTORY: 1989 Act No. 134, Section 1.
SC Code § 44-93-210 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 44 - Health|Chapter 93 - Infectious Waste Management|Section 44-93-210. Annual estimate of amount of infectious waste; infectious waste treatment facilities.

 (A) Annually the department shall estimate and publish the amount of infectious waste it expects to be generated within this State during the succeeding calendar year. No permitted infectious waste treatment facility may treat more than the amount the department allows it to treat by permit.  (B) For purposes of this section, a permitted infectious waste treatment facility means a site where infectious waste is incinerated regardless of the number of incinerator units or the ownership of the units.  HISTORY: 1990 Act No. 612, Part II, Section 6C; 1996 Act No. 307, Section 1; 1997 Act No. 155, Part II, Section 78C.
SC Code § 44-93-220 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 44 - Health|Chapter 93 - Infectious Waste Management|Section 44-93-220. Monthly incineration limits for infectious waste from July through December, 1990.

 From July through December, 1990, no more than fifteen hundred tons of infectious waste may be burned in any one month by a permitted commercial infectious waste incinerator facility in this State.  HISTORY: 1990 Act No. 612, Section 6D, Part II.
SC Code § 44-93-230 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 44 - Health|Chapter 93 - Infectious Waste Management|Section 44-93-230. Construction of infectious waste provisions.

 The provisions of Sections 44-93-210 and 44-93-220 must be construed as separate provisions. If a provision is judged to be invalid by a court of law of this State, the court's decree shall apply only to the provision and action specified and shall have no effect on any other provision unless stated in the court's decree. The invalidity does not affect other provisions or applications of Sections 44-93-210 and 44-93-220 which may be given effect without the invalid provision or application and, pursuant to this requirement, the provisions of this section are severable.  HISTORY: 1990 Act No. 612, Part II, Section 6E.
SC Code § 44-93-240 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 44 - Health|Chapter 93 - Infectious Waste Management|Section 44-93-240. Fines for exceeding infectious waste incineration limits; disposition of money collected.

 In the event the infectious waste tonnage limitations in any month are unlawfully exceeded, at a commercial waste incinerator facility, a five dollar per ton increase in the fees imposed pursuant to Section 44-93-160(A) is imposed retroactively on the excess tonnage burned in that month. The funds received from this fee increase must also be deposited in the Infectious Waste Contingency Fund established in Section 44-93-170. The fee increase imposed by this section is in addition to any other civil or criminal penalties which may be imposed by law for the tonnage violation.  HISTORY: 1990 Act No. 612, Part II, Section 6F.
SC Code § 44-95-10 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 44 - Health|Chapter 95 - Clean Indoor Air Act|Section 44-95-10. Short title.

 This chapter may be cited as the Clean Indoor Air Act of 1990.  HISTORY: 1990 Act No. 503, Section 1.
SC Code § 44-95-20 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 44 - Health|Chapter 95 - Clean Indoor Air Act|Section 44-95-20. Places where smoking is prohibited.

 It is unlawful for a person to smoke or possess lighted smoking material in any form in the following public indoor areas except where a smoking area is designated as provided for in this chapter:  (1) public schools and preschools;  (2) all other indoor facilities providing children's services to the extent that smoking is prohibited in the facility by federal law and all other childcare facilities, as defined in Section 63-13-20, which are licensed pursuant to Chapter 13, Title 63;  (3) health care facilities as defined in Section 44-7-130, except where smoking areas are designated in employee break areas. However, nothing in this chapter prohibits or precludes a health care facility from being smoke free;  (4) government buildings, except health care facilities as provided for in this section, except that smoking may be allowed in enclosed private offices and designated areas of employee break areas. However, smoking policies in the State Capitol and Legislative Office Buildings must be determined by the office of government having control over its respective area of the buildings. "Government buildings" means buildings or portions of buildings which are leased or operated under the control of the State or any of its political subdivisions, except those buildings or portions of buildings which are leased to other organizations or corporations;  (5) elevators;  (6) public transportation vehicles, except for taxicabs;  (7) arenas and auditoriums of public theaters or public performing art centers. However, smoking areas may be designated in foyers, lobbies, or other common areas, and smoking is permitted as part of a legitimate theatrical performance; and  (8) buildings, or portions of buildings, and the outside areas immediately contiguous to these buildings owned, leased, operated, or maintained by a public institution of higher learning, as defined in Section 59-103-5, that the governing board of the institution has designated as nonsmoking.  HISTORY: 1990 Act No. 503, Section 2; 1994 Act No. 289, Section 1; 1996 Act No. 445, Section 1; 2012 Act No. 188, Section 1, eff June 7, 2012; 2019 Act No. 25 (H.3420), Section 4, eff April 26, 2019.  Effect of Amendment  2019 Act No. 25, Section 4, rewrote (1), eliminating the exclusion for private offices and teacher lounges.
SC Code § 44-95-30 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 44 - Health|Chapter 95 - Clean Indoor Air Act|Section 44-95-30. Designation of smoking and nonsmoking areas in places where smoking permitted.

 In areas where smoking is permitted in Section 44-95-20, the owner, manager, or agent in charge of the premises or vehicle referenced in Section 44-95-20 shall conspicuously display signs designating smoking and nonsmoking areas alike, except that signs are not required in private offices.  HISTORY: 1990 Act No. 503, Section 3.
SC Code § 44-95-40 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 44 - Health|Chapter 95 - Clean Indoor Air Act|Section 44-95-40. Separation of smoking and nonsmoking areas; barriers; ventilation.

 In complying with Section 44-95-30, the owner, manager, or agent in charge of the premises shall make every reasonable effort to prevent designated smoking areas from impinging upon designated smoke-free areas by the use of existing physical barriers and ventilation systems.  HISTORY: 1990 Act No. 503, Section 4.
SC Code § 44-95-50 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 44 - Health|Chapter 95 - Clean Indoor Air Act|Section 44-95-50. Penalty for violation of smoking restrictions.

 A person who violates Section 44-95-20, 44-95-30 or 44-95-40 of this chapter is guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, must be fined not less than ten dollars nor more than twenty-five dollars.  HISTORY: 1990 Act No. 503, Section 5.
SC Code § 44-95-60 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 44 - Health|Chapter 95 - Clean Indoor Air Act|Section 44-95-60. Mandatory nicotine or tobacco testing prohibited.

 No person in this State is authorized to require any other person to submit to any form of testing to determine whether or not the person has nicotine or other tobacco residue in his body.  HISTORY: 1990 Act No. 503, Section 6.
SC Code § 44-96-10 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 44 - Health|Chapter 96 - South Carolina Solid Waste Policy And Management Act|Section 44-96-10. Short title.

 This chapter is known and may be cited as the "South Carolina Solid Waste Policy and Management Act of 1991".  HISTORY: 1991 Act No. 63, Section 1.
SC Code § 44-96-30 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 44 - Health|Chapter 96 - South Carolina Solid Waste Policy And Management Act|Section 44-96-30. Applicability.

 This chapter does not apply to hazardous waste regulated under the South Carolina Hazardous Waste Management Act, to infectious waste regulated under the South Carolina Infectious Waste Management Act, to radioactive waste regulated under the South Carolina Atomic Energy and Radiation Control Act, to the Southeast Interstate Radioactive Waste Compact, or to refuse as defined and regulated pursuant to the South Carolina Mining Act, including processed mineral waste, which will not have a significant adverse impact on the environment.  HISTORY: 1991 Act No. 63, Section 1.
SC Code § 44-96-105 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 44 - Health|Chapter 96 - South Carolina Solid Waste Policy And Management Act|Section 44-96-105. Promulgation of regulations.

 All regulations promulgated by the department pursuant to this chapter must be in consultation with officials representing local governments which own or operate municipal solid waste disposal facilities, pursuant to the Administrative Procedures Act.  HISTORY: 1991 Act No. 63, Section 1.