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SC Code § 8-27-30 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 8 - Public Officers and Employees|Chapter 27 - Employment Protection For Reports Of Violations Of State Or Federal Law Or Regulation|Section 8-27-30. Civil action against employing public body for retaliation; remedies; exhaustion of remedies and other prerequisites; time to bring action.

 (A) If an employee is dismissed, suspended from employment, demoted, or receives a decrease in compensation, within one year after having timely reported an alleged wrongdoing under this chapter, the employee may institute a nonjury civil action against the employing public body for (1) reinstatement to his former position; (2) lost wages; (3) actual damages not to exceed fifteen thousand dollars; and (4) reasonable attorney fees as determined by the court, but this award of attorney fees may not exceed ten thousand dollars for any trial and five thousand dollars for any appeal. The action must be brought in the court of common pleas of the county in which the employment action occurred. No action may be brought under this chapter unless (1) the employee has exhausted all available grievance or other administrative remedies; and (2) any previous proceedings have resulted in a finding that the employee would not have been disciplined but for the reporting of alleged wrongdoing.  (B) An action under this chapter must be commenced within one year after the accrual of the cause of action or exhaustion of all available grievance or other administrative and judicial remedies or is forever barred.  HISTORY: 1988 Act No. 354, eff March 14, 1988; 1993 Act No. 164, Part II, Section 37C, eff June 21, 1993, and applies with respect to any personnel actions taken after that date.
SC Code § 8-27-40 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 8 - Public Officers and Employees|Chapter 27 - Employment Protection For Reports Of Violations Of State Or Federal Law Or Regulation|Section 8-27-40. Dismissal, suspension, demotion, or decrease in compensation for independent cause permitted.

 Notwithstanding the filing of a report pursuant to this chapter, a public body may dismiss, suspend, demote, or decrease the compensation of an employee for causes independent of the filing of a protected report as described in Section 8-27-20.  HISTORY: 1988 Act No. 354, eff March 14, 1988; 1993 Act No. 164, Part II, Section 37D, eff June 21, 1993, and applies with respect to any personnel actions taken after that date.
SC Code § 8-27-50 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 8 - Public Officers and Employees|Chapter 27 - Employment Protection For Reports Of Violations Of State Or Federal Law Or Regulation|Section 8-27-50. Application of Chapter 27.

 The provisions of this chapter do not apply to nonpublic, private corporations.  HISTORY: 1988 Act No. 354, eff March 14, 1988.
SC Code § 8-27-60 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 8 - Public Officers and Employees|Chapter 27 - Employment Protection For Reports Of Violations Of State Or Federal Law Or Regulation|Section 8-27-60. Summary of Chapter 27 to be made available on public body website or in writing.

 Each public body must make a summary of this chapter available on the public body's Internet website. The summary must include an explanation of the process required to report wrongdoing, an explanation of what constitutes wrongdoing, and a description of the protections available to an employee who reports wrongdoing. If the public body does not maintain an Internet website, the public body must annually provide a written summary of this chapter to its employees and maintain copies of the summary at all times.  HISTORY: 2014 Act No. 121 (S.22), Pt IV, Section 6.C, eff January 1, 2015.
SC Code § 8-30-10 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 8 - Public Officers and Employees|Chapter 30 - Recording And Reporting Immigration Law Violations|Section 8-30-10. Recording and reporting allegations of federal immigration law violations; centralized tracking database.

 (A) The Executive Director of the State Commission for Minority Affairs, or a designee, shall establish and maintain a twenty-four hour toll free telephone number and electronic website to receive, record, collect, and report allegations of violations of federal immigration laws or related provisions of South Carolina law by any non-United States citizen or immigrant, and allegations of violations of any federal immigration laws or related provisions in South Carolina law against any non-United States citizen or immigrant. Such violations shall include, but are not limited to, E-Verify or other federal work authorization program violations, violations of Chapter 83, Title 40 of this code relating to immigration assistance services, or any regulations enacted governing the operation of immigration assistance services, false or fraudulent statements made or documents filed in relation to an immigration matter, as defined by Section 40-83-20, violation of human trafficking laws, as defined in Section 16-3-2020, landlord tenant law violations, or violations of any law pertaining to the provision or receipt of public assistance benefits or public services.  (B) The executive director, or a designee, shall establish and maintain a centralized tracking database consisting of all information received through the twenty-four hour toll free telephone number and electronic website, and shall report all alleged violations to the appropriate law enforcement, administrative, executive, or regulatory agency or political subdivision having law enforcement or regulatory control over the subject matter, including, but not limited to the United States Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, consistent with 8 USC Section 1373.  HISTORY: 2008 Act No. 280, Section 6, eff June 4, 2008; 2015 Act No. 7 (S.196), Section 6.A, eff April 2, 2015.
SC Code § 8-30-20 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 8 - Public Officers and Employees|Chapter 30 - Recording And Reporting Immigration Law Violations|Section 8-30-20. Authority to hire personnel.

 The executive director is authorized to hire personnel necessary to carry out the duties prescribed in Section 8-30-10. The General Assembly shall provide for the funds in the annual appropriations act.  HISTORY: 2008 Act No. 280, Section 6, eff June 4, 2008.
SC Code § 9-1-20 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 9 - Retirement Systems|Chapter 1 - South Carolina Retirement System|Section 9-1-20. South Carolina Retirement System created; system shall have powers and privileges of corporation; purposes of system.

 A retirement system is hereby established and placed under the management of the board for the purpose of providing retirement allowances and other benefits for teachers and employees of the State and political subdivisions or agencies or departments thereof. The system so created shall have the power and privileges of a corporation and shall be known as the "South Carolina Retirement System", and by such name all of its business shall be transacted, all of its funds invested, and all of its cash, securities, and other property held.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 61-2; 1952 Code Section 61-2; 1945 (44) 212; 1949 (46) 424; 2012 Act No. 278, Pt IV, Subpt 2, Section 40, eff July 1, 2012.
SC Code § 9-1-30 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 9 - Retirement Systems|Chapter 1 - South Carolina Retirement System|Section 9-1-30. Property of system exempt from taxation.

 All property owned or acquired by the Retirement System for the purposes of this chapter shall be exempt from all taxes imposed by the State or any political subdivision thereof.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 61-3; 1952 Code Section 61-3; 1945 (44) 212; 1949 (46) 424.
SC Code § 9-1-40 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 9 - Retirement Systems|Chapter 1 - South Carolina Retirement System|Section 9-1-40. Penalties for making false statement or record.

 Any person who shall knowingly make any false statement or shall falsify or permit to be falsified any record of the System in any attempt to defraud the System as a result of such act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, on conviction thereof by any court of competent jurisdiction, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars or imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding twelve months, or both such fine and imprisonment at the discretion of the court.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 61-4; 1952 Code Section 61-4; 1945 (44) 212; 1949 (46) 424.
SC Code § 9-1-50 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 9 - Retirement Systems|Chapter 1 - South Carolina Retirement System|Section 9-1-50. Reservation of right to revise system to conform to changes in Federal Social Security Act.

 The State hereby reserves the right, in case the Federal Social Security Act be so amended that the members or beneficiaries of the System can be included in the old age and survivors insurance plan provided for in said Federal Act, to revise the System upon a fair and equitable basis so that the members or beneficiaries of the System may be included under the provisions of said Federal Act.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 61-5; 1952 Code Section 61-7; 1945 (44) 212; 1949 (46) 424.
SC Code § 9-1-60 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 9 - Retirement Systems|Chapter 1 - South Carolina Retirement System|Section 9-1-60. Implementation of "cafeteria" plan.

 (A) The System may develop and implement a program for the administration of a flexible benefits or "cafeteria" plan as defined by Section 125 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 for all employees covered by the health and dental insurance plan administered by the System. The plan may not decrease contributions paid to or benefits paid by the System.  The South Carolina Department of Highways and Public Transportation is herewith authorized to continue its independent cafeteria or flexible benefits pilot plan and to modify and implement the plan to accomplish maximum available benefits under Internal Revenue Section 125, until such time as the Comptroller General can convert Department of Transportation employees into the state cafeteria plan.  (B) Political subdivisions may develop and implement a program for the administration of a flexible benefits or "cafeteria" plan as defined by Section 125 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, for their employees. The plan may not decrease contributions paid to or benefits paid by the system. For political subdivisions that also participate in the plan adopted pursuant to subsection (A) of this section, any separate cafeteria plan adopted pursuant to this subsection may provide benefits in addition to, but shall not include, the specific types of benefits provided to employees under the plan adopted pursuant to subsection (A) of this section.  (C) An employer or coalition of employers working in concert may develop and implement a program for the administration of a flexible benefits or "cafeteria" plan as defined by Section 125 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, for their employees. The plan may not decrease contributions paid to or benefits paid by the system. For employers or coalition of employers working in concert, that also participate in the plan adopted pursuant to subsection (A) of this section, any separate cafeteria plan adopted pursuant to this subsection may provide benefits in addition to, but shall not include, the specific types of benefits provided to employees under the plan adopted pursuant to subsection (A) of this section.  HISTORY: 1987 Act No. 170, Part II, Section 18, eff June 22, 1987 (became law without Governor's signature); 1993 Act No. 181, Section 78, eff July 1, 1993; 2001 Act No. 62, Section 3, eff June 22, 2001; 2001 Act No. 62, Section 4, eff June 22, 2001.  Editor's Note  2001 Act No. 62, Section 5, provides:  "The implementation of the 'parallel' cafeteria plans authorized in Sections 3 and 4 of this act is contingent on a ruling from the Internal Revenue Service that such 'parallel' plans may be tested alone for purposes of discrimination testing and not aggregated with the cafeteria plan maintained by the State."
SC Code § 9-1-100 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 9 - Retirement Systems|Chapter 1 - South Carolina Retirement System|Section 9-1-100. Payments to beneficiaries may include payments to persons, trustees, and estates.

 Payments made to beneficiaries pursuant to the provisions of this chapter may include payments to a person or persons, trustees, and estates.  HISTORY: 1990 Act No. 412, Section 4, eff January 1, 1991.
SC Code § 9-1-210 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 9 - Retirement Systems|Chapter 1 - South Carolina Retirement System|Section 9-1-210. Board shall administer system.

 The general administration and responsibility for the proper operation of the system and for making effective the provisions hereof are hereby vested in the board.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 61-11; 1952 Code Section 61-11; 1945 (44) 212; 1949 (46) 424; 2012 Act No. 278, Pt IV, Subpt 2, Section 41, eff July 1, 2012.
SC Code § 9-1-230 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 9 - Retirement Systems|Chapter 1 - South Carolina Retirement System|Section 9-1-230. Authority to engage actuarial and other services.

 The Board shall engage such actuarial and other services as shall be required to transact the business of the System.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 61-13; 1952 Code Section 61-13; 1945 (44) 212; 1949 (46) 424.
SC Code § 9-1-240 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 9 - Retirement Systems|Chapter 1 - South Carolina Retirement System|Section 9-1-240. Actuary for board.

 The board shall designate an actuary, subject to the approval of the State Fiscal Accountability Authority or its successor, who is the technical advisor of the board on matters regarding the operation of the system and shall perform such other duties as are required in connection therewith, provided, however, that the Retirement System Investment Commission is a third-party beneficiary of the contract with the actuary, with full rights to all actuarial valuations prepared by the actuary. The board shall provide to the State Fiscal Accountability Authority or its successor actuarial valuations and reports requested.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 61-14; 1952 Code Section 61-14; 1945 (44) 212; 1949 (46) 424; 2017 Act No. 13 (H.3726), Pt. II, Section 6, eff July 1, 2017.
SC Code § 9-1-250 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 9 - Retirement Systems|Chapter 1 - South Carolina Retirement System|Section 9-1-250. Investigation and valuation by actuary every five years.

 At least once in each five-year period, the first of which began in 1947, the actuary shall make an actuarial investigation into the mortality, service and compensation experience of the members and beneficiaries of the System and shall make a valuation of the contingent assets and liabilities of the System and the Board, after taking into account the results of such investigations and valuations, shall adopt for the System such mortality, service and other tables as shall be deemed necessary.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 61-15; 1952 Code Section 61-15; 1945 (44) 212; 1949 (46) 424.
SC Code § 9-1-260 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 9 - Retirement Systems|Chapter 1 - South Carolina Retirement System|Section 9-1-260. Annual valuation by actuary.

 On the basis of regular interest and tables last adopted by the Board the actuary shall make an annual valuation of the contingent assets and liabilities of the System.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 61-16; 1952 Code Section 61-16; 1945 (44) 212; 1949 (46) 424.
SC Code § 9-1-270 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 9 - Retirement Systems|Chapter 1 - South Carolina Retirement System|Section 9-1-270. Board shall keep actuarial data in convenient form.

 The Board shall keep in convenient form such data as shall be necessary for actuarial valuation of the contingent assets and liabilities of the System and for checking the experience of the System.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 61-17; 1952 Code Section 61-17; 1945 (44) 212; 1949 (46) 424.
SC Code § 9-1-280 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 9 - Retirement Systems|Chapter 1 - South Carolina Retirement System|Section 9-1-280. Board shall determine interest rate; base rate established.

 The Board shall determine from time to time the rate of regular interest for use in all calculations, with the rate of four per cent per annum applicable unless heretofore or hereafter changed by the Board.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 61-18; 1952 Code Section 61-18; 1945 (44) 212; 1949 (46) 424.
SC Code § 9-1-290 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 9 - Retirement Systems|Chapter 1 - South Carolina Retirement System|Section 9-1-290. Rules and regulations.

 Subject to the limitations hereof, the Board shall, from time to time, establish rules and regulations for the administration of the System and for the transaction of business. The Board shall also, from time to time, in its discretion, adopt rules and regulations to prevent injustices and inequalities which might otherwise arise in the administration of the System.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 61-19; 1952 Code Section 61-19; 1945 (44) 212; 1949 (46) 424.
SC Code § 9-1-300 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 9 - Retirement Systems|Chapter 1 - South Carolina Retirement System|Section 9-1-300. Records and reports.

 The Board shall keep a record of all its proceedings under this chapter, which shall be open to public inspection. It shall publish annually a report showing the fiscal transactions of the System for the preceding year, the amount of the accumulated cash and securities of the System and the last balance sheet showing the financial condition of the System by means of an actuarial valuation of the contingent assets and liabilities of the System.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 61-20; 1952 Code Section 61-20; 1945 (44) 212; 1949 (46) 424; 1981 Act No. 178 Part II Section 17; 1982 Act No. 466 Part II Section 3A.
SC Code § 9-1-310 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 9 - Retirement Systems|Chapter 1 - South Carolina Retirement System|Section 9-1-310. Administrative costs of retirement systems funded from interest earnings; allocation of costs.

 The administrative cost of the South Carolina Retirement System, the South Carolina Police Officers Retirement System, the Retirement System for Members of the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina, the Retirement System for Judges and Solicitors of the State of South Carolina, and the National Guard Retirement System must be funded from the interest earnings of the above systems. The allocation of the administrative costs of the systems must be made by the board and must be based upon a proration of the cost in proportion to the assets that each system bears to the total assets of all of the systems for the most recently completed fiscal year.  HISTORY: 1982 Act No. 466 Part II Section 3B; 2005 Act No. 155, Section 2, eff January 1, 2006; 2012 Act No. 278, Pt IV, Subpt 2, Section 42.A, eff July 1, 2012.
SC Code § 9-1-320 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 9 - Retirement Systems|Chapter 1 - South Carolina Retirement System|Section 9-1-320. Confidentiality of member records.

 All records of all active, retired, and inactive members maintained by the South Carolina Retirement Systems are classified as confidential records. These records are exempt from the disclosure requirements of Chapter 4 of Title 30, and shall not be disclosed to third parties, except where authorized by the member or where requested by state and federal authorities, and then only at the sole discretion of the director of the South Carolina Retirement Systems.  HISTORY: 2008 Act No. 311, Section 29, eff June 4, 2008.
SC Code § 9-1-410 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 9 - Retirement Systems|Chapter 1 - South Carolina Retirement System|Section 9-1-410. Membership generally.

 The membership of the System shall be composed as provided in this article.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 61-31; 1952 Code Section 61-31; 1945 (44) 212; 1949 (46) 424.
SC Code § 9-1-420 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 9 - Retirement Systems|Chapter 1 - South Carolina Retirement System|Section 9-1-420. Certain persons employed after December 31, 1948, are automatically members of system.

 All persons who have or shall become teachers or employees after December 31, 1948, except those specifically excluded under Section 9-1-450 or those as to whom membership is optional under Sections 9-1-510 to 9-1-560, have become or shall become members of the System as a condition of their employment.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 61-32; 1952 Code Section 61-32; 1945 (44) 212; 1949 (46) 424; 1950 (46) 2369.
SC Code § 9-1-425 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 9 - Retirement Systems|Chapter 1 - South Carolina Retirement System|Section 9-1-425. Contributing member of system.

 Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a contributing member of the System shall remain a contributing member while under employment to an employer covered by the System.  HISTORY: 1983 Act No. 26 Section 4.
SC Code § 9-1-430 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 9 - Retirement Systems|Chapter 1 - South Carolina Retirement System|Section 9-1-430. Special provision for certain persons employed between April 26, 1945 and December 31, 1966.

 All persons who were teachers or State, county or municipal employees on April 26, 1945, or who became such after this date but on or before December 31, 1966, except those specifically excluded under Section 9-1-450 and the persons permitted to exercise the option under Sections 9-1-510 to 9-1-560, became members as of July 1, 1945, or as of the date of last employment, if later, unless on or before December 31, 1948, they filed with the Board on a form prescribed by the Board a notice of their election not to be covered in the membership of the System and a duly executed waiver of all present and prospective benefits which would otherwise inure to them on account of their participation in the System.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 61-33; 1952 Code Section 61-33; 1945 (44) 212; 1949 (46) 424; 1950 (46) 2170, 2369; 1951 (47) 172; 213; 1952 (47) 2094; 1955 (49) 512; 1964 (53) 1848; 1966 (54) 2600.
SC Code § 9-1-450 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 9 - Retirement Systems|Chapter 1 - South Carolina Retirement System|Section 9-1-450. Members of other agency or departmental retirement plans.

 Notwithstanding any provisions to the contrary, any teacher or employee who was a member of any other retirement plan or fund in operation on April 26, 1945 under sponsorship of any governmental agency or department shall not be entitled to membership in the System unless on or before July 1, 1946 any such teacher or employee indicated by a notice filed with the Board on a form prescribed by the Board his individual election and choice to participate in the System. If a majority of the members of any such retirement plan or fund so voted all members of that retirement plan or fund became eligible to participate in the System and became members of the System unless within thirty days next succeeding a date named by the Board they elected not to become members.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 61-35; 1952 Code Section 61-35; 1945 (44) 212; 1949 (46) 424.
SC Code § 9-1-460 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 9 - Retirement Systems|Chapter 1 - South Carolina Retirement System|Section 9-1-460. Discontinuance of certain local plans or funds.

 If the majority of the members of a retirement or pension plan or fund voted to enter the System in the manner described in Section 9-1-450, the local plan or fund was discontinued and the payment of all pensions to members on the pension roll as of the date of discontinuance became and is an obligation of the city, county or other unit in which the plan or fund was operated and shall be continued and paid by such city, county or other unit.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 61-36; 1952 Code Section 61-36; 1945 (44) 212; 1949 (46) 424.