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SC Code § 40-23-150 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 40 - Professions and Occupations|Chapter 23 - Environmental Certification Board|Section 40-23-150. License; voluntary surrender.

 A licensee under investigation for a violation of this chapter or a regulation promulgated under this chapter may voluntarily surrender the license in accordance with Section 40-1-150. A voluntary surrender does not deprive the board of jurisdiction to pursue any pending or future disciplinary proceedings involving the licensee.  HISTORY: 2002 Act No. 185, Section 1.
SC Code § 40-23-160 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 40 - Professions and Occupations|Chapter 23 - Environmental Certification Board|Section 40-23-160. Appeal.

 A party aggrieved by a final action of the board may seek review of the decision in accordance with Section 40-1-160.  HISTORY: 2002 Act No. 185, Section 1.
SC Code § 40-23-170 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 40 - Professions and Occupations|Chapter 23 - Environmental Certification Board|Section 40-23-170. Costs.

 A person found in violation of this chapter or regulations or standards promulgated under this chapter may be required to pay costs associated with the investigation and prosecution of the case in accordance with Section 40-1-170.  HISTORY: 2002 Act No. 185, Section 1.
SC Code § 40-23-180 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 40 - Professions and Occupations|Chapter 23 - Environmental Certification Board|Section 40-23-180. Costs and fines; collection and enforcement.

 All costs and fines imposed pursuant to this chapter must be paid in accordance with, and are subject to, the collection and enforcement provisions of Section 40-1-180.  HISTORY: 2002 Act No. 185, Section 1.
SC Code § 40-23-190 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 40 - Professions and Occupations|Chapter 23 - Environmental Certification Board|Section 40-23-190. Confidentiality of initial investigations; formal complaints open to public; communications privileged; respondent's due process rights preserved.

 (A) Except as otherwise provided by law, all initial complaints, investigations, proceedings, records, and information relating to allegations of misconduct or incapacity are confidential and must not be disclosed to the public. A record published, released, or made public must not disclose the initial complainant's name or identity except by order of the board made with due consideration of the complainant's privacy. While the matter remains confidential, the members and staff of the department and the board must not reveal in any way the nature of the initial complaint except to persons directly involved in the matter and then only to the extent necessary for proper investigation and disposition of the matter.  (B) When a formal complaint is filed regarding an allegation of misconduct, the formal complaint and any answer become open to the public after the filing of the answer or if no answer is filed, thirty days after the service of the charges upon the licensee. Thereafter, except as otherwise provided by this chapter, all subsequent records and proceedings relating to the misconduct allegation are open to the public. If an allegation of incapacity is raised during the misconduct proceedings, all records, information, and proceedings relating to the allegation are confidential.  (C) However, the department or the board may disclose information to another government agency, including law enforcement officials, at any stage of the proceedings in order to protect the public or for the administration of justice.  (D) Each communication, oral or written, made by or on behalf of a complainant or by a person in the course of an investigation or hearing pursuant to this chapter to or by the department, the board, or their agent is privileged. A civil or criminal action or proceeding may not be brought against the person, by or on whose behalf the communication is made, except upon other proof that the communication was made with malice.  (E) Nothing in this chapter may be construed to prohibit the licensee respondent or the respondent's legal counsel from exercising the respondent's constitutional right of due process as provided by law or to prohibit the respondent from normal access to the charges made and evidence filed against the respondent as part of due process as provided by law.  HISTORY: 2002 Act No. 185, Section 1.
SC Code § 40-23-200 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 40 - Professions and Occupations|Chapter 23 - Environmental Certification Board|Section 40-23-200. Unauthorized practice; penalty.

 A person who practices or offers to practice in this State in violation of this chapter or a regulation promulgated under this chapter or who knowingly submits false information for the purpose of obtaining a license is guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, must be imprisoned not more than one year or fined not more than one thousand dollars, or both.  HISTORY: 2002 Act No. 185, Section 1.
SC Code § 40-23-210 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 40 - Professions and Occupations|Chapter 23 - Environmental Certification Board|Section 40-23-210. Civil penalties and injunctive relief.

 In addition to initiating a criminal proceeding for a violation of this chapter, the board may seek civil penalties and injunctive relief in accordance with Section 40-1-210.  HISTORY: 2002 Act No. 185, Section 1.
SC Code § 40-23-220 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 40 - Professions and Occupations|Chapter 23 - Environmental Certification Board|Section 40-23-220. Severability.

 The severability provisions of Section 40-1-220 apply to any determination that a provision of this chapter, or the application of a provision of this chapter to a person or circumstance, is invalid.  HISTORY: 2002 Act No. 185, Section 1.
SC Code § 40-23-230 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 40 - Professions and Occupations|Chapter 23 - Environmental Certification Board|Section 40-23-230. Issuance, renewal, and reinstatement of licenses; notification of address change.

 (A) The board may issue a license to an applicant if he satisfies all licensure requirements of this chapter. A license confers a personal right and is not transferable, and the issuance of a license is evidence that the person is entitled to all rights and privileges of a licensee while the license remains current and unrestricted. A license is the property of the State and upon suspension or revocation must be returned to the board immediately.  (B) A license issued under this chapter is renewable:  (1) as provided for in Section 40-1-30;  (2) upon the payment of a renewal fee; and  (3) upon the fulfillment of continuing education as determined by the board in regulation.  (C) The department may reinstate the license of a licensee who allows his license to lapse by failing to renew the license as provided in this section if the licensee:  (1) makes payment of a reinstatement fee and the current renewal fee;  (2) files an application for renewal within three hundred sixty-five days of the date on which the license expired; and  (3) demonstrates he complies with the current continuing education requirements of the prior licensing period or that he complies with the current continuing education requirements after the department renews his license, provided he does not engage in licensed activity until he has completed the continuing education requirement.  (D) A licensee shall ensure that the board administrator has the licensee's correct official mailing address of record and that the administrator is expressly and specifically notified in writing and in a timely manner of any change in the licensee's official mailing address.  HISTORY: 2008 Act No. 223, Section 1; 2014 Act No. 156 (H.4574), Section 4, eff April 14, 2014.  Editor's Note  Prior Laws:2000 Act No. 322, Section 5; 2000 Act No. 325, Section 4; 2002 Act No. 185, Section 1.  Effect of Amendment  2014 Act No. 156, Section 4, deleted former subsection (E), relating to the eligibility of current well driller license holders to receive either a class A or class B license.
SC Code § 40-23-240 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 40 - Professions and Occupations|Chapter 23 - Environmental Certification Board|Section 40-23-240. Reciprocity agreements; licensure of person credentialed in another jurisdiction.

 (A) The board may enter into a reciprocal agreement with another jurisdiction of the United States that credentials any licensed activities regulated by this chapter if the board finds the jurisdiction has substantially the same or higher licensure criteria as are required by this chapter.  (B) The board may license a person who is currently credentialed in another jurisdiction of the United States for licensed activities regulated by this chapter if the person demonstrates to the satisfaction of the board that he possesses credentials, education, and experience that are the substantial equivalent of the requirements of this chapter for the licensed activity in question.  HISTORY: 2002 Act No. 185, Section 1.
SC Code § 40-23-250 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 40 - Professions and Occupations|Chapter 23 - Environmental Certification Board|Section 40-23-250. License as prerequisite to practice or offer to practice.

 No person may practice or offer to practice any licensed activity regulated by this chapter or use any advertisement, business card, or letterhead or make any other verbal or written communication asserting or suggesting that the person is available to engage in any licensed activity or acquiesce in such a representation unless that person has fully complied with this chapter and holds a current license issued by the board authorizing the person to perform the licensed activity.  HISTORY: 2002 Act No. 185, Section 1.
SC Code § 40-23-260 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 40 - Professions and Occupations|Chapter 23 - Environmental Certification Board|Section 40-23-260. Continuing education; code of ethics.

 The board may establish continuing education requirements and a code of ethics in regulations. The absence of an adopted code of ethics does not prevent the board from finding a licensee is guilty of unethical or unprofessional conduct.  HISTORY: 2002 Act No. 185, Section 1.
SC Code § 40-23-270 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 40 - Professions and Occupations|Chapter 23 - Environmental Certification Board|Section 40-23-270. Exceptions from application of chapter.

 This chapter does not apply to:  (1) salaried employees performing duties for which they were trained and hired solely within a federal or state governmental agency;  (2) persons constructing, opening, or closing wells on their own property;  (3) persons constructing, opening, or closing exploration borings;  (4) persons licensed as contractors pursuant to Chapter 11 who drill a borehole for measuring groundwater levels, blasting, or short term dewatering for construction purposes.  HISTORY: 2002 Act No. 185, Section 1.
SC Code § 40-23-280 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 40 - Professions and Occupations|Chapter 23 - Environmental Certification Board|Section 40-23-280. Requirements, proof, and initiation of claim on bond.

 (A) If an applicant is required to provide proof of a bond in order to receive a license pursuant to this chapter, the bond must:  (1) be payable for losses because of defective construction or performance by the bond principal or the principal's agents operating in the course and scope of the principal's agency; and  (2) be cancelable only upon thirty days' written notice to the board; and  (3) provide that cancellation does not affect any liability on the bond that accrued before cancellation; and  (4) be subject to claims as authorized by subsection (B); and  (5) be approved by the board as to form, execution, and sufficiency of the surety.  (B) If proof of a bond is required for licensure by this chapter, the requirement may be satisfied by proof that:  (1) the applicant maintains a current bond in his own name that is in compliance with the requirements of subsection (A);  (2) the applicant is a bona fide employee of a corporation that maintains a current bond in the corporate name that is in compliance with the requirements of subsection (A); or  (3) the applicant is a bona fide employee of a licensed well driller who maintains a current bond in the employer licensee's name that is in compliance with the requirements of subsection (A).  (C) After a hearing the board may initiate claims on the bond of any licensee for the cost of remediation or abatement of deficiencies or losses found to be the responsibility of the licensee. Claims are limited to actual damages and may not include attorney's fees or consequential or punitive damages. Claims may also be initiated upon the bond by the Department of Health and Environmental Control for remediation of deficiencies or losses determined, in accordance with that agency's procedures, to be the responsibility of a licensee.  HISTORY: 2002 Act No. 185, Section 1.  Editor's Note  Prior Laws:2000 Act No. 322, Section 6; 2000 Act No. 325, Section 5.
SC Code § 40-23-305 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 40 - Professions and Occupations|Chapter 23 - Environmental Certification Board|Section 40-23-305. Wastewater treatment operator licenses.

 A person employed as an operator of a public wastewater treatment plant must hold a wastewater treatment operator license issued by the board in the certification class required by this section and the regulations of the board. The required certification class must be determined by the treatment group of the public wastewater treatment plant where the operator is employed, as established by the Department of Health and Environmental Control pursuant to Section 48-1-110. The board shall establish in regulations the certification class required for each treatment group of public wastewater treatment plants defined in Section 40-23-20.  HISTORY: 2002 Act No. 185, Section 1.  Editor's Note  Prior Laws:2000 Act No. 322, Section 7; 2000 Act No. 325, Section 6.
SC Code § 40-24-10 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 40 - Professions and Occupations|Chapter 24 - Eye Care Consumer Protection|Section 40-24-10. Definitions.

 For purposes of this chapter:  (1) "Contact lenses" means a lens placed directly on the surface of the eye, regardless of whether it is intended to correct a visual defect, and includes, but is not limited to, cosmetic, therapeutic, and corrective lenses.  (2) "Dispense" means the act of providing a pair of spectacles or contact lenses to a patient.  (3) "Eye examination" means an assessment of all or a portion of the ocular health profile, which must include a complete written or electronic medical history, as well as an assessment of the visual status of a patient.  (4) "Kiosk" means automated equipment or an automated application, which is designed to be used on a phone, computer, or Internet-based device that can be used in person or remotely to provide refractive data or information.  (5) "Patient" means a person who submits to an eye examination in this State.  (6) "Prescription" means a provider's handwritten or electronic order to correct refractive error that is based on an eye examination.  (7) "Provider" means an individual licensed by the South Carolina Board of Examiners in Optometry or the South Carolina Board of Medical Examiners.  (8) "Spectacles" means an optical instrument or device worn or used by an individual that has one or more lenses designed to correct or remediate vision deficits or needs of the individual wearer and are commonly known as glasses, including spectacles that may be adjusted by the wearer to achieve different types or levels of visual correction or enhancement, and excluding over-the-counter spectacles not intended to correct or enhance vision or sold without consideration of the visual status of the individual using the spectacles.  (9) "Visual status" means the assessment of the visual acuity, accommodation amplitudes at the discretion of the provider, and ocular alignment of the eyes in an uncorrected state and the best corrected visual acuity achievable with the aid of a spectacle or contact lens prescription; however, the assessment must not be based solely on objective refractive data or information generated by an automated testing device, including an auto refractor or other electronic refractive-only testing device, to provide a medical diagnosis or to establish a refractive error for a patient as part of an eye examination.  HISTORY: 2016 Act No. 173 (S.1016), Section 1, eff May 19, 2016.
SC Code § 40-24-20 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 40 - Professions and Occupations|Chapter 24 - Eye Care Consumer Protection|Section 40-24-20. Valid prescription required to dispense spectacles or contact lenses; penalties.

 (A) A person in this State may not dispense spectacles or contact lenses to a patient without a valid prescription from a provider.  (B) To be valid, a prescription must contain an expiration date on spectacles or contact lenses of one year from the date of examination by the provider or a statement of the reasons why a shorter time is appropriate based on the medical needs of the patient. The prescription must take into consideration medical findings made and refractive error discovered during the eye examination. If a provider determines a patient is a suitable candidate for a prescription for contact lenses or spectacles, a provider may not thereafter refuse to issue a prescription for spectacles or contact lenses to a patient.  (C) A prescription for spectacles or contact lenses may not be based solely on the refractive eye error of the human eye or be generated by a kiosk.  (D) Violation of this section constitutes misconduct as provided for in Sections 40-37-110 and 40-47-110. A provider who violates this section is subject to the penalties authorized in Chapter 37, Title 40 or Chapter 47, Title 40, as applicable.  HISTORY: 2016 Act No. 173 (S.1016), Section 1, eff May 19, 2016.
SC Code § 40-25-10 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 40 - Professions and Occupations|Chapter 25 - Practice Of Specializing In Hearing Aids Act|Section 40-25-10. Citation of Act.

 This chapter may be cited as the "Practice of Specializing in Hearing Aids Act".  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 56-745; 1971 (57) 1012; 1992 Act No. 312, Section 1.
SC Code § 40-25-20 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 40 - Professions and Occupations|Chapter 25 - Practice Of Specializing In Hearing Aids Act|Section 40-25-20. Definitions.

 As used in this chapter, unless the context requires otherwise:  (1) "Department" means the Department of Health and Environmental Control.  (2) "Commission" means the State Commission for Hearing Aid Specialists.  (3) "License" means a license issued by the department under this chapter to hearing aid specialists.  (4) "Temporary permit" means a permit issued while the applicant is in training to become a licensed hearing aid specialist.  (5) "Hearing aid" means an acceptable wearable instrument or device designated or offered to aid or compensate for impaired human hearing and parts, attachments, or accessories, including earmold, but excluding batteries and cords.  (6) "Practice of specializing in hearing aids" means the measurement of human hearing by an audiometer and by other established means solely for fitting, making selections, adaptations, or sale of hearing aids. It also includes the making of impressions for earmolds.  (7) "Sell" or "sale" means the transfer of title or of the right to use by lease, bailment, or other contract, excluding wholesale transactions with distributors or specialists.  (8) "Hearing aid specialist" means an individual licensed under this chapter to engage in the practice of specializing in hearing aids.  (9) "Audiologist" means an individual licensed by the State Board of Examiners in Speech Pathology and Audiology as an audiologist.  (10) "Otolaryngologist" means a licensed physician specializing in ear, nose, and throat.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 56-745.1; 1971 (57) 1012; 1992 Act No. 312, Section 1.
SC Code § 40-25-30 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 40 - Professions and Occupations|Chapter 25 - Practice Of Specializing In Hearing Aids Act|Section 40-25-30. Powers and duties of Department of Health and Environmental Control.

 The powers and duties of the department are to:  (1) authorize disbursements necessary to carry out this chapter;  (2) supervise issuance of licenses "by experience" and administer qualifying examinations to test the knowledge and proficiency of applicants licensed by examination;  (3) register persons who apply to the department and are qualified to engage in the practice of specializing in hearing aids;  (4) purchase and maintain or rent audiometric equipment and other facilities necessary to carry out the examination of applicants;  (5) issue and renew licenses;  (6) suspend or revoke licenses or require that refunds be made;  (7) designate the time and place for examining applicants;  (8) enforce this chapter;  (9) promulgate and publish regulations not inconsistent with the laws of this State and necessary to carry out this chapter, including the establishment of licensing fees;  (10) appoint or employ subordinate employees;  (11) retain funds received for administration of the program;  (12) require the periodic inspection of audiometric testing equipment and carry out the periodic inspection of facilities of persons who engage in the practice of specializing in hearing aids.  (13) appoint members of the commission and other individuals who are not audiologists to conduct and supervise the written and practical examinations;  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 56-745.15; 1971 (57) 1012; 1992 Act No. 312, Section 1; 1994 Act No. 337, Sections 1, 5.