2015 South Carolina Code of Laws
Title 59 - Education
CHAPTER 103 - STATE COMMISSION ON HIGHER EDUCATION
Section 59-103-195. Regulation of culinary arts instruction requiring student under 21 to taste alcoholic beverage.

The State Commission on Higher Education shall have review authority in order to determine the legitimacy and appropriateness of the tasting requirements pursuant to Sections 63-19-2440 and 63-19-2450. The commission shall also establish reasonable rules and restrictions through regulation, as appropriate, with regard to any proposed course of instruction in the culinary arts which any private or public institution desires to offer to students under twenty-one years of age in which the tasting of beer, ale, porter, wine, or other similar malt or fermented beverage or alcoholic liquor is required. Unless approved by the commission, no such course and no student under twenty-one years of age enrolled in such course shall qualify for the exceptions provided under Sections 63-19-2440, 63-19-2450, 61-6-4070, or 61-4-90. A course of instruction on bartending or any similar curriculum does not qualify for exception or approval by the commission under this section.

HISTORY: 1999 Act No. 1, Section 6.

Code Commissioner's Note

At the direction of the Code Commissioner, the references to Sections 20-7-8920 and 20-7-8925 were changed to Sections 63-19-2440 and 63-19-2450.