2015 South Carolina Code of Laws
Title 59 - Education
CHAPTER 53 - TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING
Section 59-53-2400. Definitions.

As used in this article:

(1) "Authority" means a technical college Enterprise Campus Authority.

(2) "Board" means the governing body of an authority.

(3) "Commission" means an area commission as defined by Section 59-53-52.

(4) "Enterprise campus" means the real and personal property subject to the management and control of an authority. The enterprise campus may consist of one or more tracts or parcels of real property and none of the tracts or parcels must be contiguous with other properties constituting the enterprise campus.

HISTORY: 2009 Act No. 71, Section 3, eff June 16, 2009.

Editor's Note

2009 Act No. 71, Section 1 provides as follows:

"The General Assembly finds that:

"(1) the State Board for Technical and Comprehensive Education (state board) and its colleges are in a unique position to be active and full participants in the state's effort to promote and enhance the economic development of this State through the location and development of high technology businesses and industries;

"(2) the role of the state board and the colleges to provide educational and job training opportunities for citizens complements and enhances the ability of the state's research universities to pursue and engage the high technology community;

"(3) the state board and the colleges can better utilize their resources if necessary powers and flexibility are granted by the General Assembly for the state board and the colleges to fulfill their role in a high technology economy;

"(4) it is in the best interest of the State to provide the powers and flexibility for the state board, and the best method for accomplishing this is through the creation and establishment of separate and distinct instrumentalities of the State;

"(5) the state board shall carefully review and approve each individual project brought to it by these colleges and instrumentalities and shall approve projects based on the best interest of the State; and

"(6) authorizations contained in this act are in the public interest, serve a public purpose, and promote the health, safety, welfare, and convenience of the people of the State."

2008 Act No. 71, Section 2 provides as follows:

"This act may be cited as the 'State Board for Technical and Comprehensive Education Enterprise Campus Authority Act'."

2008 Act No. 71, Section 4 provides as follows:

"Nothing in the article may be construed to alter, amend, or otherwise affect an existing technical or community college enterprise campus or Enterprise Campus Authority currently in existence."