2016 South Carolina Code of Laws
Title 44 - Health
CHAPTER 23 - PROVISIONS APPLICABLE TO BOTH MENTALLY ILL PERSONS AND PERSONS OF INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES
Section 44-23-250. Signature of director of state mental health facility defined.
Whenever reference is made requiring the signature of the director of any state mental health facility, the reference means the director of the facility or the director's designee.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 32-916.1; 1967 (55) 317; 2008 Act No. 266, Section 9, eff June 4, 2008; 2011 Act No. 47, Section 5, eff June 7, 2011.
Editor's Note
2011 Act No. 47, Section 13, provides as follows:
"SECTION 13. In Sections 1 through 6 of this act, the terms 'intellectual disability' and 'person with intellectual disability' have replaced and have the same meanings as the former terms 'mental retardation' and 'mentally retarded'."
Effect of Amendment
The 2008 amendment substituted "director of any state mental health facility," for "superintendent of any institution" and made conforming changes.
The 2011 amendment reenacted this section with no apparent change.
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