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2013 South Carolina Code of Laws
Title 44 - Health
CHAPTER 31 - TUBERCULOSIS
SECTION 44-31-320. Examination of prisoners or inmates by physician.


SC Code § 44-31-320 (2013) What's This?

The county supervisor or sheriff of any county, when a prisoner or inmate is placed in his custody who the official has reason to suspect is suffering with tuberculosis, shall have such prisoner or inmate examined by a physician and if such prisoner or inmate shall be pronounced by the examining physician as a tuberculous person, then the prisoner or inmate shall be placed in the separate cell, room or place provided for by Section 44-31-310.

HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 32-652; 1952 Code Section 32-652; 1942 Code Section 5045; 1932 Code Section 1499; Cr. C. '22 Section 444; 1915 (29) 196.

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