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SC Code § 44-13-20 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 44 - Health|Chapter 13 - Admission, Detention And Removal Of Patients At State Mental Health Facilities|Section 44-13-20. Admission of resident ordered committed by foreign court.

 Any individual, legally a resident of this State, ordered to be admitted to any mental health facility under the laws of any other state, may be admitted, upon satisfactory proof of residence, to care and treatment in any State mental health facility of this State. The orders of any court of competent jurisdiction of another state or of the District of Columbia authorizing admittance of such individual to a mental health facility shall have the same force and effect upon his transfer to this State as a lawful order of any court of competent jurisdiction in this State. A certified copy of such order shall be furnished the Department of Mental Health prior to the issuance by the Department of Mental Health of any authorization of transfer of such patient. Jurisdiction in all further matters relating to such mentally ill person shall vest in the judge of probate of the county in which the mental health facility, to which such person is admitted, is located, during his confinement therein, or the judge of probate of the county in which he is legally resident.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 32-1013; 1954 (48) 1732.
SC Code § 44-13-30 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 44 - Health|Chapter 13 - Admission, Detention And Removal Of Patients At State Mental Health Facilities|Section 44-13-30. Removal of patient or trainee who is not a citizen of this State.

 Unless he was admitted pursuant to the Interstate Compact on Mental Health as set out in Section 44-25-20 or a supplementary agreement thereto, if any person admitted to a State mental health facility is not a citizen of this State, the superintendent of the facility concerned shall immediately notify the Department of Mental Health, and the Department of Mental Health shall notify the mental health commission or other appropriate agency of the state of which the patient or trainee is a citizen. If the state of his citizenship fails to provide for his removal within a reasonable time, the Department of Mental Health shall cause him to be delivered to the officials authorized by law to care for similar persons pending their commitment to state institutions of the state of his citizenship. The cost of these proceedings and conveyance from this State shall be borne by this State under reciprocity agreements made by the Department of Mental Health with the mental health authorities of other states. In entering upon such reciprocal agreements with other states, the Department of Mental Health shall provide that the requirements necessary to gain residence in this State shall not be less than those required for the acquisition of residence in the other contracting state. The Department of Mental Health may, however, in cases of undue hardship waive the requirements of residence, for cause.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 32-1024; 1952 Code Sections 32-972, 32-1008; 1942 Code Sections 6232, 6233; 1932 Code Sections 6232, 6233; Civ. C. '22 Sections 5085, 5086; Civ. C. '12 Sections 3368, 3369; 1902 (23) 1026; 1920 (31) 704; 1932 (37) 1365; 1952 (47) 2042; 1954 (48) 1732; 1959 (51) 325.
SC Code § 44-13-40 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 44 - Health|Chapter 13 - Admission, Detention And Removal Of Patients At State Mental Health Facilities|Section 44-13-40. Removal of alien patient or trainee.

 If any person admitted to a State mental health facility is not a citizen of the United States, the superintendent of the facility concerned shall immediately notify the Department of Mental Health of the name of the person and all ascertainable information as to race, nativity, date of last arrival in the United States, the name of the vessel on which he arrived, the port at which he landed and the name of the transporting company. The Department of Mental Health shall transmit this information to the appropriate United States authorities and shall continue to provide care and treatment for the patient or trainee pending arrangements for his deportation.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 32-1025; 1952 Code Sections 32-972, 32-1009; 1942 Code Sections 6232, 6233; 1932 Code Sections 6232, 6233; Civ. C. '22 Sections 5085, 5086; Civ. C. '12 Sections 3368, 3369; 1902 (23) 1026; 1920 (31) 704; 1932 (37) 1365; 1952 (47) 2042.
SC Code § 44-13-50 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 44 - Health|Chapter 13 - Admission, Detention And Removal Of Patients At State Mental Health Facilities|Section 44-13-50. Return of patient to out-of-state mental health facility.

 If a mentally ill patient from an out-of-State mental health facility is found to be in this State without permission and upon satisfactory identification of the patient and the request of such facility that the patient be returned, he may be taken into custody by proper public officials and transported directly to the out-of-State facility or may be detained in a State mental health facility until such time as transportation arrangements can be made or the patient's health will permit his return. The state requesting the return of the patient shall pay all costs of, and incidental to, the transportation and detention of the patient.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 32-1024.1; 1970 (56) 2496.
SC Code § 44-13-60 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 44 - Health|Chapter 13 - Admission, Detention And Removal Of Patients At State Mental Health Facilities|Section 44-13-60. Transfer of custody of infirm or harmless patient or trainee.

 The Department of Mental Health shall investigate the case of each patient or trainee in a State mental health facility who is simply mentally or physically infirm or who is a harmless mental defective or harmless epileptic. When, in the opinion of the Department of Mental Health, the family, guardian, trustee, committee or other person legally responsible for the person is financially able to provide for his care, it shall, when in the opinion of the Department of Mental Health this is advisable, transfer the patient or trainee to the custody of that person. If all persons legally responsible for the patient or trainee are financially unable to provide for his care, the Department of Mental Health shall, when practicable, transfer the custody of the person to the county health authorities of the county of which the patient or trainee was a resident prior to admittance.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 32-1031; 1952 Code Sections 32-957, 32-964, 32-976; 1942 Code Sections 6226, 6249-1, 6249-3; 1932 Code Sections 1570, 1572, 6226; Civ. C. '22 Section 5078; Cr. C. '22 Sections 518, 520; Cr. C. '12 Sections 587, 589; Cr. C. '02 Sections 430, 432; R. S. 343, 345; 1884 (18) 827, 828; 1920 (31) 704; 1952 (47) 2042.
SC Code § 44-13-70 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 44 - Health|Chapter 13 - Admission, Detention And Removal Of Patients At State Mental Health Facilities|Section 44-13-70. Admission forms to be kept by probate judges.

 The judge of probate in each county shall keep an adequate supply of forms necessary for the admission or commitment of persons under this chapter, Chapter 9, Chapter 11, Article 1 of Chapter 15, Chapter 17, Chapter 23, Chapter 24, Chapter 27, and Chapter 52.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 32-1014; 1952 (47) 2042; 1958 (50) 1634; 1993 Act No. 20, Section 1.
SC Code § 44-15-10 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 44 - Health|Chapter 15 - Local Mental Health Programs, Boards And Centers|Section 44-15-10. Establishment of local mental health programs and clinics authorized.

 Any county, city, town, political subdivision, or any combination thereof, of over one hundred thousand population, and upon consent of the South Carolina Department of Mental Health, any city, county, town, or political subdivision, or combination thereof, with less than one hundred thousand population, may establish a community mental health services program and may establish clinics and staff them with persons specially trained in psychiatry and related fields. Such programs and clinics may be administered by a county, city, town, political subdivision or nonprofit corporation or a community mental health board established pursuant to this article.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 32-1034.21; 1961 (52) 110.
SC Code § 44-15-20 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 44 - Health|Chapter 15 - Local Mental Health Programs, Boards And Centers|Section 44-15-20. Services for which funds may be granted.

 The Department of Mental Health may, when funds are available for such purposes, make grants to assist counties, cities, towns, political subdivisions or any combinations thereof, or any nonprofit corporation, in the establishment and operation of local mental health programs to provide the following services:  (1) Collaborative and cooperative services with public health, education, welfare and other groups for programs of prevention of mental illness, intellectual disability and other psychiatric disabilities;  (2) Informational and educational services to the general public and lay and professional groups;  (3) Consultative services to schools, courts and health and welfare agencies, both public and private;  (4) Diagnostic and treatment services; and  (5) After care services for patients suffering from mental or emotional disorders, intellectual disability and other psychiatric conditions, particularly those who have received prior treatment in an in-patient facility.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 32-1034.22; 1961 (52) 110.
SC Code § 44-15-30 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 44 - Health|Chapter 15 - Local Mental Health Programs, Boards And Centers|Section 44-15-30. Applications for grants by local units.

 Any county, city, town, political subdivision, nonprofit corporation or community mental health board administering a mental health services program may apply for the assistance provided by this article by submitting annually to the Department of Mental Health its plan and budget for the next fiscal year together with the recommendations of the community mental health board. No program shall be eligible for such assistance unless its plan and budget have been approved by the Department.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 32-1034.23; 1961 (52) 110.
SC Code § 44-15-40 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 44 - Health|Chapter 15 - Local Mental Health Programs, Boards And Centers|Section 44-15-40. Allocation of funds; review of expenditures.

 At the beginning of each fiscal year the Department shall allocate available funds to the mental health programs for disbursement during the fiscal year in accordance with such approved plans and budgets. The Department shall, from time to time during the fiscal year, review the budgets and expenditures of the various programs, and if funds are not needed for a program to which they were allocated, it may, after reasonable notice and opportunity for hearing, withdraw such funds as are unencumbered and reallocate them to other programs. It may withdraw funds from any program which is not being administered in accordance with its approved plan and budget.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 32-1034.24; 1961 (52) 110.
SC Code § 44-15-50 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 44 - Health|Chapter 15 - Local Mental Health Programs, Boards And Centers|Section 44-15-50. Grants for mental health services.

 Grants may be made for expenditures for mental health services whether provided by operation of a local facility or through contract with other public or private agencies or individual persons.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 32-1034.25; 1961 (52) 110; 1966 (54) 2593; 1969 (56) 630; 1971 (57) 519; 1974 (58) 1980, 2331; 2000 Act No. 253, Section 4.
SC Code § 44-15-60 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 44 - Health|Chapter 15 - Local Mental Health Programs, Boards And Centers|Section 44-15-60. Establishment and membership of community mental health boards.

 Every county, city, town, or political subdivision, or combination of them, establishing a community mental health services program, before it may come within this article, shall establish a community mental health board to be made up of not less than seven nor more than fifteen members. Membership of the boards, so far as may be practicable, must be representatives of local health departments, medical societies, county welfare boards, hospital boards, and lay associations concerned with mental health as well as labor, business, and civic groups, and the general public. At least one member of the board must be a medical doctor licensed to practice medicine in this State. The members must be appointed by the Governor upon the recommendation of a majority of the members of the legislative delegations of the counties participating. The legislative delegations and the Governor shall consider consumer and family representation, including parents of emotionally disturbed children and adolescents, when recommending and appointing members to the board. By resolution a county legislative delegation may delegate to the governing body of the county they represent the authority to recommend board members to the Governor. The resolution is not revocable, and copies of the resolution must be sent to the Governor, the Department of Mental Health, and the governing bodies of the counties concerned. The number of members representing each county must be proportional to its population. The term of office of each member of the community mental health board is four years and until the member's successor is appointed. Vacancies must be filled for the unexpired term in the same manner as original appointments. A member of a board may be removed by the Governor pursuant to the provisions of Section 1-3-240. A person may serve consecutive terms.  In Berkeley County, appointments made pursuant to this section are governed by the provisions of Act 159 of 1995.  In Dorchester County, appointments made pursuant to this section are governed by the provisions of Act 512 of 1996.  In Georgetown County, appointments made pursuant to this section are governed by the provisions of Act 515 of 1996.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 32-1034.26; 1961 (52) 110; 1964 (53) 1875; 1979 Act No. 30; 1983 Act No. 100; 1991 Act No. 88, Section 2; 1992 Act No. 382, Section 1; 1993 Act No. 27, Section 1; 1993 Act No. 181, Section 1076.
SC Code § 44-15-70 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 44 - Health|Chapter 15 - Local Mental Health Programs, Boards And Centers|Section 44-15-70. Powers and duties of community mental health boards.

 Subject to the provisions of this article and the rules and regulations of the Department of Mental Health, each community mental health board shall:  (1) Be the administrative agency for the community mental health services program; and it shall be a body corporate in deed and in law with all the powers incident to corporation, including the power to purchase, lease or sell real and personal property;  (2) Employ personnel necessary to carry out the community mental health services program, who shall meet the job specifications as prescribed by the Department and its merit system;  (3) Review and evaluate community mental health services provided pursuant to this article and report its findings and recommendations to the Department, the administrator of the local program and, when indicated, the public;  (4) Recruit and promote local financial support for the program from private sources such as community chests, business, industrial and private foundations, voluntary agencies and other lawful sources, and promote public support for municipal and county appropriations;  (5) Promote, arrange and implement working agreements with other social service agencies, both public and private, and with other educational and judicial agencies;  (6) Advise the administrator of the local program on the adoption and implementation of policies to stimulate effective community relations; and  (7) Review the annual plan and budget of the local program and make recommendations thereon.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 32-1034.27; 1961 (52) 110; 1964 (53) 1875; 1974 (58) 2219.
SC Code § 44-15-80 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 44 - Health|Chapter 15 - Local Mental Health Programs, Boards And Centers|Section 44-15-80. Powers and duties of Department.

 In addition to the powers and duties already conferred by law, the Department of Mental Health shall:  (1) Promulgate rules and regulations governing the eligibility of community mental health programs to receive State grants, prescribing standards for qualification of personnel and quality of professional service and for in-service training and educational leave programs for personnel;  (2) Govern eligibility for service so that no person will be denied service on the basis of inability to pay and so that anyone who cannot afford to pay for necessary treatment at the rate customarily charged in available private practice shall be eligible to receive services from the community mental health clinic;  (3) Provide for establishment of fee schedules and reduction of balance due which shall be based upon ability to pay;  (4) Regulate fees for consultation and diagnostic services, which services may be provided to anyone without regard to his financial status when such person is referred by the courts, schools, health or welfare agencies;  (5) Promulgate such other rules and regulations as it deems necessary to carry out the purposes of this article;  (6) Review and evaluate local programs and the performance of all personnel and make recommendations thereon to community mental health boards and program administrators;  (7) Provide consultative staff service to communities to assist in ascertaining local needs and in planning and establishing community mental health programs; and  (8) Employ personnel, certified by the merit system as classified according to existing job classifications, including a State Director of Community Mental Health Services, to be under the supervision of the Director of the Department of Mental Health, to implement the provisions of this article.  (9) Require reports from the directors of community mental health programs relating to the intake, examination, diagnosis and file closing of any patient or client.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 32-1034.28; 1961 (52) 110; 1979 Act No. 42 Section 3; 1993 Act No. 181, Section 1077; 2000 Act No. 253, Section 5.
SC Code § 44-15-90 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 44 - Health|Chapter 15 - Local Mental Health Programs, Boards And Centers|Section 44-15-90. Unexpended appropriations.

 If any balances of appropriations for the program authorized by this article are unexpended during any fiscal year, the Department of Mental Health may carry such balances forward to the next fiscal year; provided, that not more than five per cent of the amount appropriated during any fiscal year shall be carried forward.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 32-1034.29; 1961 (52) 110.
SC Code § 44-17-310 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 44 - Health|Chapter 17 - Care And Commitment Of Mentally Ill Persons|Section 44-17-310. Voluntary admission.

 If in the judgment of the director of a state hospital the person is a proper subject for voluntary admission, the director of the hospital shall admit for treatment an individual who is eighteen years of age or over and applies for admission.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 32-951; 1952 Code Section 32-959; 1942 Code Section 6228; 1932 Code Section 6228; Civ. C. '22 Section 5081; 1920 (31) 704; 1952 (47) 2042; 1966 (54) 2259; 1974 (58) 2642; 1977 Act No. 99 Section 2; 1993 Act No. 39, Section 1.
SC Code § 44-17-320 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 44 - Health|Chapter 17 - Care And Commitment Of Mentally Ill Persons|Section 44-17-320. Discharge of voluntary patient by superintendent.

 The superintendent of a hospital shall discharge any voluntary patient who has recovered or whose detention he determines to be no longer advisable.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 32-952; 1952 (47) 2042; 1974 (58) 2642.
SC Code § 44-17-330 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 44 - Health|Chapter 17 - Care And Commitment Of Mentally Ill Persons|Section 44-17-330. Discharge at request of patient or another person.

 A voluntary patient who requests to be discharged or whose discharge is requested, in writing, by the patient's parent or legal guardian or other interested person must be discharged, except that:  (1) if the patient was admitted on the patient's own application and the request for discharge is made by a person other than the patient, discharge must be conditioned upon the agreement of the patient;  (2) if the director of the hospital, within three days, excluding Saturdays, Sundays, and legal holidays, after the patient or other interested person requests the patient's discharge, files with the probate court of the county in which the patient resided or was present immediately before admission a certificate that in the director's opinion, the patient desiring discharge is mentally ill and should be hospitalized, discharge may be postponed on application for as long as the court determines by order to be necessary for conducting proceedings for judicial admission, but in no event for more than fifteen days. Upon the filing of a certificate, the proceedings for judicial admission must be conducted pursuant to Sections 44-17-510 through 44-17-610.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 32-953; 1952 Code Section 32-959; 1942 Code Section 6228; 1932 Code Section 6228; Civ. C. '22 Section 5081; 1920 (31) 704; 1952 (47) 2042; 1974 (58) 2642; 1993 Act No. 40, Section 1.
SC Code § 44-17-340 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 44 - Health|Chapter 17 - Care And Commitment Of Mentally Ill Persons|Section 44-17-340. Written notice of right to release.

 At the time of his admission to the hospital and once during the first six months of hospitalization and annually thereafter a voluntary patient shall be informed in writing of his right to release. The patient's spouse, parent, legal guardian or other interested person shall also be so informed and shall sign a statement to that effect which shall become a part of the patient's record. The patient shall also acknowledge deliverance of the notice in writing or an affidavit that he was so informed shall be attached to his record. Where no spouse, parent, legal guardian or other interested person is known to exist, documentation in the patient's record of this finding will be deemed to be in compliance with the notification requirements.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 32-954; 1974 (58) 2642; 1977 Act No. 99 Section 3.
SC Code § 44-17-415 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 44 - Health|Chapter 17 - Care And Commitment Of Mentally Ill Persons|Section 44-17-415. Physical examination report to accompany certification for emergency admission.

 Any certification for an emergency admission of a person fifty-five years of age or older who, at the time of the petition, is a patient in a hospital or a resident of a nursing care facility pursuant to Section 44-17-410 must be accompanied by the results of the most recent physical examination, including appropriate laboratory work as contained in the medical record which must be furnished by the hospital or nursing care facility except as otherwise prohibited by federal law. The physician evaluating the mental condition of the patient shall take into consideration the results of the physical examination to ascertain how the mental and physical treatment needs of the person may best be provided.  HISTORY: 1987 Act No. 158 Section 1.