2014 South Carolina Code of Laws
Title 14 - Courts
CHAPTER 23 - PROBATE COURTS
SECTION 14-23-1040. Only qualified county electors eligible to office of judge or associate judge.
No person is eligible to hold the office of judge of probate who is not at the time of his election a citizen of the United States and of this State, has not attained the age of twenty-one years upon his election, has not become a qualified elector of the county in which he is to be a judge, and has not received a four-year bachelor's degree from an accredited post-secondary institution or if he has received no degree he must have four years' experience as an employee in a probate judge's office in this State.
HISTORY: 1976 Act No. 690 Art. V Section 4; 1988 Act No. 678, Part IV, Section 3, eff January 1, 1989.
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