2013 South Carolina Code of Laws
Title 1 - Administration of the Government
CHAPTER 1 - GENERAL PROVISIONS
SECTION 1-1-697. Use of language other than English prohibited.


SC Code § 1-1-697 (2013) What's This?

Neither this State nor any political subdivision thereof shall require, by law, ordinance, regulation, order, decree, program, or policy, the use of any language other than English; provided, however, that nothing in Sections 1-1-696 through 1-1-698 shall prohibit a state agency or a political subdivision of the State from requiring an applicant to have certain degrees of knowledge of a foreign language as a condition of employment where appropriate.

HISTORY: 1987 Act No. 25, Section 2.

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